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Quelle: https://cyclingtips.com/2017/12/secr...ve-bikes-ride/

Sometimes you don’t even need to talk to a rider to find out what equipment sucks. Turn on the TV during a rainy race and look for teams crashing more than seems normal. It’s surprising how bad tyres can be. A few years back, you could guarantee that anyone with Vittoria tyres would never win a rainy race. Good news for those Vittoria-sponsored teams is that they’ve improved a lot and are pretty good now, among the best, even. Remember the wet Paris-Nice stage a few years back when the Sky guys kept crashing? They were on Veloflex, if I recall correctly, but they switched shortly thereafter.

In the rain, no brand is even close to the quality of Continental. No wonder Sky now just buys them (or used to) instead of having a bad tyre sponsor.