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Challenge Strada Bianca TLR

What a let-down these tyres are. Having had good experiences with the ‘standard’ strada bianca road bike tyres, I bought this type for my gravel bike and used them for a week and a half during my holiday in Italy. I had two punctures in the rear tyre and a front tyre that kept losing air through the sidewalls. Time and again, a new puncture would appear; although the latex would seal it, I’d still have to keep pumping it up. After the second puncture, the rear tyre wasn’t sealed by the latex and had to be fitted with a plug. I cycled straight to a local bike shop, bought two Continental GP5000 (32 mm) tyres and threw both Strada Bianca tyres into the rubbish bin. What a disappointment – a real nuisance during the rides and €70.00 down the drain☹️

Catastrophic mounting!!!! Despite years of experience with tubular and tubeless tyres, EXTREMELY difficult mounting despite tricks such as soapy water. On a 3T tubeless rim with sealing milk and the use of a booster completely impossible to get tight. Not a chance. It's a joke when I have to ride a tubeless tyre on a rubeless rim with a tube, because tubeless mounting is simply not possible, even for experienced hobby mechanics.

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I fitted these two new tyres and immediately noticed that air was escaping from the carcass on the sides and in several places (10 or so small holes), the problem was encountered on both tyres. As a result, the preventive fluid is coming out in several places and it's impossible to maintain the correct pressure... These tyres should therefore be used exclusively with inner tubes. I'm obviously very disappointed with the product, I've lost 120ml of preventive fluid and will have to buy two inner tubes, not to mention the time wasted mounting/dismounting, cleaning...

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