Best Grip, Rolling Resistance and Durability

Continental's Grand Prix tyre is perfect for all urban applications. Black Chilli, is incorporated to provide the best grip, rolling resistance and durability available, whilst Vectran Breaker provides fool proof puncture resistance. The black reflective sidewall stripe provides greater visibility at night and blends into the sidewall, ensuring your bike is always looking its best.

BlackChili Compound - The Crucial Balance
The crucial balance. The rolling properties of the rubber compound of a tyre are primarily determined by three interacting factors - stiction (grip), rolling resistance and mileage (longevity) The dilemma: If you improve any of these factors it can have a detrimental effect on at least one of the others.

A tyre with maximum grip wears quicker and rolls more slowly. If you then make a tyre roll faster and more durable, grip, in turn, is reduced. With their BlackChili Compound, a tread compound which is always based on the latest knowledge of polymers and raw material research, Continental have supplied the cycling industry with an enduring solution. Depending on the application of a tyre, the compound formulation for the specific discipline is adjusted - for road or mountain biking, time trialling or downhill racing.

How does that work? For BlackChili, Continental refine special synthetic rubbers with proven natural rubber to high-performance tread mixtures. To these mixtures soot particles are added, which in turn are optimised in shape and surface properties. The complex compound technology is so sensitive that tyres with BlackChili Compound are produced exclusively in their German Korbach plant.

VectranT - The benchmark in Puncture Protection
VectranT is a synthetically manufactured high-tech fibre from a natural model. Like spider silk, VectranT is a liquid-crystalline polymer (LCP). VectranT is spun from the melted liquid polymer Vectra and processed further to a multi-strand thread.

Spider silk like VectranT has an enormous tear resistance at a very low weight: Exactly the right properties to process into a premium Continental bicycle tire as a puncture protection insert. A VectranT Breaker is lighter, more flexible and protects more effectively against cuts than the comparable nylon breaker. VectranT Breaker does not adversely affect the rolling resistance.