Pirelli’s hottest Cinturato Gravel tires get a HP Excessive Efficiency Italian improve with new licensed sustainable rubber, new 10-15% faster-rolling however MTB-tough casing, and naturally new manufacturing at their high-tech manufacturing unit simply exterior of Milan. Not solely do the highest tires get updates, although, the remainder of the Efficiency line gravel tires shift to a brand new all-rounder development that seems to shed some weight, too.
Whereas there aren’t any new tread designs, the brand new Italian manufacturing helps divide the broad Pirelli gravel line-up into two tiers – the extra race-focused Excessive Efficiency and all-rounder Efficiency tires.
High-tier Pirelli Cinturato Gravel tires, now made in Italy
It’s been nearly 4 years since Pirelli began making biking tires of their revamped Bollate, Italy tire plant. It was a shift in the direction of elevated precision that Pirelli stated allowed them to create lighter and quicker tires, even when utilizing the identical supplies.
Only a week in the past, I used to be speaking with an Italian gravel bike builder who was spec’ing their bike with Italian wheels, drivetrain, saddles, and extra about how correct gravel tires have been going to be the final to make it to Bollate. First, it was street, then Pirelli’s fastest-ever XC tire, and subsequent even a sustainably-produced all-road tire. However now a few premium Cinturato Gravel tires make the transfer to Italy, as effectively.
Beginning off, Pirelli will solely make the Cinturato Gravel M & Cinturato Gravel H in Italy. The tread patterns don’t change, not since Pirrelli launched them 6 years in the past. However they do get ‘smarter’ rubber and a extra ‘professional’ casing development. Possible extra will comply with of their race-oriented line-up sooner or later.
New SmartEVO GR rubber and ProWall Gravel casing
What’s new within the HP-line tires is first a brand new, extra eco-friendly SmartEVO GR rubber compound. This compound options FSC-certified pure rubber (15% of the whole tire weight) in a brand new combination Pirelli materials engineers optimized for gravel using. “It combines low rolling resistance and distinctive grip on dry and moist surfaces, providing effectivity and management throughout all terrains.“
The brand new gravel tires additionally get an all-new ProWALL Gravel development. It’s nonetheless a 120tpi casing like their earlier prime gravel tires. However now it includes a development refined extra from Pirelli’s prime XC MTB tires with separate sidewall and under-tread safety layers to create a extra supple, faster-rolling tire, with out sacrificing sturdiness.
Mixed, the brand new onerous floor Cinturato Gravel H HP reduces rolling resistance by 10% AND will increase puncture resistance by 20%, in comparison with the earlier made-in-France 120tpi Cinturato Gravel H tire. For the brand new combined to comfortable terrain Cinturato Gravel M HP, it’s a 15% rolling resistance discount AND a 7% enhance in puncture resistance vs. the earlier era.
Pirelli Cinturato Gravel Efficiency Line up to date & partially renamed
The brand new second-tier P-line of Pirelli Cinturato Gravel tires affords a wider vary of treads and casing shapes, at a bit extra reasonably priced costs with extra fundamental SpeedGrip rubber. These tires now all shift to the identical coarser 60tpi development, however even handle to shed a couple of grams within the course of, because of the easier bead-to-bead safety of their TechWall Gravel casing development.
There are actually 5 tires on this household – RH, H, RM, M & S.
The RH is a new-this-year hardpack semi-slick with massive sq. shoulder knobs for grip in probably the most technical circumstances with free corners. The RM is one other squared-off technical off-road tire, extra like a scaled-down mountain bike tire for combined circumstances (initially referred to as the RC when it launched a couple of years in the past.) The H is the tightligh spaced hardpack tread, M the center floor mixed-conditions tread, and S for using in moist & comfortable circumstances.
Distinguishing the brand new HP-line from the P-line
The brand new Pirelli Cinturato Gravel Excessive Efficiency tires function Italian flags on their packaging to assist decide them out, plus FSC-certified pure rubber and Made-in-Italy labels molded into the tire sidewalls.
As a normal rule, it seems to be like the brand new Cinturato Gravel Excessive Efficiency tires would be the solely ones going ahead to get the color-coded mannequin labels.
And the Efficiency-line will persist with all grey labeling.
(Though the unchanged Gravel S messes that up a bit till these get their subsequent replace.)
Pirelli Cinturato Gravel – Pricing, choices & availability
By dividing their tubeless-ready gravel tire lineup into HP- & P-lines that look fairly comparable, Pirelli did nonetheless handle to maintain the pricing and choices easy.
The brand new Cinturato Gravel HP-line tires will all promote for a similar $98 /80€, now simply together with H & M treads. Pirelli affords the Excessive Efficiency line tires in 40, 45 & 55mm widths and in each all-black or ‘Traditional’ brownwall variations (that may get easy black labels).
The up to date Cinturato Gravel P-line tires all promote for $79 / 65€ every, together with RH, H, RM, M & S. These are available 35, 40, 45 & 50mm widths relying on tread patterns, however will solely be provided in black.
The preferred 40mm & 45mm sizes are already accessible now by way of common Pirelli sellers. And the remaining ought to be in inventory inside the subsequent few weeks.