Expanding on its Cinturato Velo range, the new gravel and cyclocross specific tyres from Pirelli combine specific tread pattern designs and new rubber compounds. According to the firm, this is in order to satisfy the most demanding off-road application of drop-bar equipped CX and Gravel bicycles.
The Cinturato Cross & Gravel family includes features that Pirelli has already developed for the road as well for the MTB product ranges. It combines the company’s ‘tailor development philosophy’ and a terrain-driven tread pattern design from the Scorpion MTB, to the rolling efficiency and reliability of the super reinforced Cinturato Velo.
Altogether, Pirelli’s latest offering includes a 33mm Cinturato Cross version and an extended range of sizes from 35mm to 45mm in 700c and a 45 to 50mm in 650b for the Cinturato Gravel, all in tubeless-ready (TLR) reinforced construction and in two tread pattern designs: Hard Terrain and Mixed Terrain.
Following the terrain-specific lineage of the Scorpion MTB, where the tread pattern is ‘linked to the surface consistency and no longer to the weather’, Pirelli designed a compact tread design (H) for all the paved or hard packed gravel roads and a more open design (M), with more open spacing and aggressive knobs for more demanding terrains.
