Continental City Contact Wire Tyre 05 - £11.99

The City Contact is designed as our best tyre for day to day commuting for those who value great puncture protection and comfort as highly as speed & low weight. Check out our tyre application chart for more help in choosing your ideal city/touring tyres. Other tyres in the new Contact range include Sport Contact for those requiring a narrow, lightweight commuter / trainer; Travel Contact which is intended for world touring and so can handle rougher terrain, and the Contact which is our new tyre for touring enthusiast such as CTC and Audax cyclists. All the contact tyres are built with a hybrid aramid/polyamide belt under the tread where the lightweight & flexible polyamide is used as the main material to keep rolling resistance low, and filaments of aramid (kevlar) are spread over this belt to give a strong yet lightweight puncture protection system. The compound we have used for the City Contact uses a mix of carbon and silica as the main agents. Carbon aids tread life whilst the silica boosts grip levels. The rubber used is natural, not synthetic. Natural rubber gives superior wet grip and so we feel it is imperative that this be used in our tyre compounds. Includes 4 polyamide layers under the tread plus the Safety System belt to give 240 threads per inch protection.