Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Home Trainer Fold Tire

**** Update*** bumped down one star. The new tire only lasted two seasons before is started splitting apart. Emailed Vittoria 4 months ago, all the info to include purchase dates, my address and pictures. They sent a reply asking me to give them a call. My schedule doesn’t allow me to call during the day so every time I call it’s a voicemail. In this day in age, more options should be available to get an RMA. I believe it was an old tire stock that I received. Other than this issue, great tire if you get a “fresh” one.Seven years... really? I only got a little over seven years of use out of this tire. It was so bad that I had to order another one after I had the first one so long that it dry rotted and cracked. Only after a bazzilion miles or so. I can't believe it didn't last forever. I would only rate it one star if I didn't know any better.

Salutations my fellow Amazonians,Boiled down review: this tire comes in a small box (and its super flat), give it some time to just adjust to room temp and to just rest (It sounds like we're cooking...I know). I'm not going to lie, I cussed a few times trying to get this sucker on my rim but after a few attempts I was able to get it on the rim (keep in mind it doesn't naturally have the curves/beads to set into the rim) and I was able to pump up the tube to set this sucker in place.I've been rocking it on my indoor trainer and I (a) love the color difference between my front and rear tire (oh yes, I went there) and (b) it works.Happy training. Cheers.

Update 3/29/19 - over 2100 turbo trainer miles and there is still almost no wear. There is some blackening where the tire contacts the trainer, but that is from the metal of the trainer rubbing off the tire. This thing is ridiculous. I’d happily buy another, but I think it will be decades before I need to.Update 3/29/18 - I now have over 1300 turbo trainer miles on this tire and it still looks new. I notice a tiny amount of red dust on my trainer, but nothing major. In over 1300 miles this tire is still performing like new.I have been using these all winter since getting a smart trainer, well almost. I started with my regular outdoor tire and quickly noticed it was wearing out insanely fast so I decided to order these. I have well over 550 trainer miles on them and you can hardly see any wear. They have excellent traction with my trainer. Mounting them to my wheel was no trouble either. I always use tire levers. I have two of these, one for my bike and one for my wife. They are both working fantastic.

I used to run my bike tires on my trainer, the sound was so loud it would drive my family batty. I bought a spare wheel and mounted this on that wheel. Actually I had the local bike mechanic install it, and he had a tough time. I bought the 23mm tire and simply could not mount it. It's to be expected though becuase, as everyone says, the tire made of a very hard rubber. It is also extremely quiet. I have been using it for about 400 miles and have notices no wear.It will pick up a metalic residue after a short time. This is normal. Some rubbing alcohol and a rag witll get it off. It's also a good idea to keep it at 100psi as the tire says and definately recalibrate your trainer after you do. I would highly recommend this as I have Vittoria tires on the wheels that I regularly ride, as they are a very good tire manufacturer.

Installed on a 2003 Giant ORC medium frame road bike on a Cycle Ops Fluid 2 non-smart indoor trainer. Just received few days ago and have done one ride. Will update in a month or so. The tire has a great feel on the trainer, like its getting good traction, but rolling smoothly, so the feedback is road-like.The tire shape is very flatten in the box and reluctant to take tire shape for install. One note is the package says "must install on hook rimmed wheel" but I'm not seeing this in the description of the product. It was difficult to get the tire to resume shape in order to install, but with some shaping around the wheel, probably being warmed by my hands, the force of stretching the bead around the wheel while flattening/shaping the edge into the wheel eventually worked. Didn't take too long, honestly, but was weird to negotiate. I would suggest removing tire from package and hanging in with something like a broom stick stuck inside the wheel for it to relax and assume tire shape for a few days.This tire does not have standard road tire height, so you'll need to be extra careful when stuffing the tube in, the tube will want to wrinkle up and hang out the side. I continued stuffing tube under during those first few inflating pumps and shaping / pulling pushing the wheel while SLOWLY inflating. This seemed to work great.I'll update on longevity at some point, but I think you buy this with confidence to save your road tires.

Previously I had been using a normal smooth road tire on my indoor trainer and it all seem well until one day the tire got too hot and warped the tire; basically it is not round anymore. I wanted to avoid this so I purchased this indoor specific tire. The first thing I noticed was how much quieter this tire was to my normal road tire. I have finished one training session so far and have to say it works pretty well. I can't say anything about durability but so far so good. I would recommend this tire if you dont want to risk damaging some rather expensive road tires and want a quieter indoor training experience.

Changed from a Conti Gp4000s that was nearing its end of life that I was using on a trainer to this one and the sound improvement was huge. Smooth-rolling and quiet. Very happy with this. Only have a couple of hundred miles on it so I do not have any life data yet, but just the noise reduction makes this worth it to me.Update: a few weeks later this tire is as noisy as any other I have tried. Heat is showing the wear looking like burning rubber on the tire surface. I think that is just going to be the nature of using a fluid trainer. Good tire but it doesn't seem to be better than anything else.

I recently bought the (excellent) Kinetic trainer so chose this tyre to help with any premature tyre wear and noise problems. Only used a few times so far but can report that it is very quiet, no slipping on the roller either. As for longevity we'll have to see, I'll report back in due course.**UPDATE FEB 2020**Done around 2300km on this tyre, no problems at all, no visible wear

I bought this trainer tyre to replace the 38c hybrid tyre from my old bike that I'm using on the trainer. My main reason for buying a trainer tyre was to reduce the noice from the knobbly fat tyre that was on my bike. The existing tyre was so noisy that I couldn't use the trainer indoors or even on decking outside my house. I'm pleased to say that this tyre has completely solved the noise problem. It is very quiet and I can use my trainer indoors now.The tyre arrived almost flat. There was no distinct sidewalls and tread areas so putting onto the rim was tricky as it had no shape. I put the tyre on the rim without a tube fairly easily though. I then tried to put my existing tube into the tyre but it was too fat and I had to order a 18c-25c tube which I was able to fit without levers although it did take a bit of brute force to get the final bit over the rim. I was concerned about nipping the tube as I fitted the tyre but all went well. This might be in part to the tube being pre-filled with anti-puncture fluid. I can't be sure.I really pleased with the tyre no that it is fitted and the wheel is back in the bike. I was exactly what I hoped for when I made the purchase.

fast service come the next day and I am in CZ, The tyre is simple to fit and the trainer is less noisy , and ride is much smother.don't use your normal tyre this is the way to go.

Made my indoor training sessions much more pleasant. Less vibration and noise than with my normal road tyre and after more than 500 miles is still showing no signs of any wear. Very tough to fit on my Mavic rims but bought another for the wife's bike and fitted to hers without tyre levers. Leave the tyre in it's box on a radiator for a bit before fitting, it did seem to help.

Bought to use on an indoor turbo trainer rather than wearing down my road tyre. You need to remove the road tyre from your rear wheel and replace it with this one for use on the turbo, change back to the road tyre if you're going outdoors. Initially I found the tyre quite stiff and tight to get onto the wheel and ended up pinching the inner tube resulting in a puncture. I then took to youtube for tips on how to fit it! Found some handy tips and have had no problem since. It works well on the turbo, very happy with it.