Pirelli has launched Cinturato Gravel RC tyres, the racing version of its Cinturato Gravel offering. This tubeless ready tyre completes the brand’s gravel selection, conceived and designed for gravel racing.
According to the Italian firm… ‘The new tyre was created to meet the needs of the fastest athletes of this discipline, who require fluidity and speed in compact and straight sections, and aggressiveness and maximum grip to face any curve easily and at the speeds of modern gravel racing.’
The Cinturato Gravel RC, which will be shown at Eurobike in Frankfurt, Germany, features a special tread pattern. This has a tall profile and widely spaced knobs on the sidewalls and a low profile and compact tread spacing in the central area.
This tread is borrowed from a best-selling competition tyre in Pirelli’s MTB product range: the Scorpion XC RC, a tyre born in XC and Marathon World Cup races and made for fast, off-road riders.
As with the other Cinturato Gravel tyres in the range, the new Cinturato Gravel RC is made with Pirelli’s high-performance SpeedGRIP compound. This proprietary compound allows the tyre to be ridden on varying surfaces, from asphalt to gravel to off-road. SpeedGRIP offers durability comparable to that of the MTB SmartGRIP, with grip on wet surfaces and a reduction in rolling resistance close to that of a pure road tyre.
The Gravel RC has been reinforced compared to the other gravel tyres in the range. Its casing, in 60TPI nylon, is protected by a ‘belt’, which goes from bead to bead. Named TechWALL Gravel, it adds a layer of reinforcement and protection against cuts, without compromising the tyre’s rolling resistance and rideability.
Pirelli’s new Cinturato Gravel RC tyre is already available for purchase, in sizes 35-622, 40-622 and 45-622, in both a traditional black colour version and a Classic version, with tan sidewalls.
