A four-season version of the P ZERO clincher has hit the market as Pirelli has launched P ZERO Race 4S, a clincher tyre with all-round performance, dedicated to road bikes.
P ZERO Race 4S is the first 100% Made in Italy product by Pirelli, since the company returned to the cycling field in 2017. The new tyre is made at the company’s renovated Bollate plant, 10km from its Milan Bicocca headquarters.
Inaugurated in 1963 to produce car tyres, the plant has been converted to house a new production line dedicated to Pirelli Cycling’s high-performance models and is currently undergoing both an aesthetic and functional renovation.
P ZERO Race 4S takes up an inheritance from its predecessor P ZERO Velo 4S. The new P ZERO tyre is claimed to offer performance in winter conditions as well as summer riding.
Like the P ZERO Race and Race SL, the other tyres in the P ZERO Race family, the Race 4S tyre employs the new SmartEVO proprietary compound, which is characterised by a blend of polymers designed to provide high levels of performance in terms of grip, conditions of use, rolling resistance and reactivity of the tyre even in colder climates.
The angles, depth, number, and distance of Pirelli’s typical ‘flash’ sipes in the tread have been optimised to improve grip on slippery and uneven surfaces.
The new Race 4S, like all the other tyres in the P ZERO Race family, also features a casing adapted to new wider rim standards. As a result, each size has a wider tread than the corresponding P ZERO Velo 4S due to its construction and the consequent dimensional adaptation.
The company adds that this means a wider and shorter footprint, to the benefit of smoothness, puncture protection and cornering control.
The P ZERO Race 4S is available on the market, in a clincher version, in sizes 26- 622 and 28-622, at the recommended price of: €69.90 / £ 61.99 / US$84.90.
