Schwalbe Ultremo ZX tyre

Eggselant rolling speed canni get them for love nor money there like hens teeth

A great tyre for me just moved the rear to front after 6574 km (4087miles) Have to agree with earlier comment though about threads coming loose on the sidewalls but just cut them off as required.

I use Ultremos for crits, road races and any event when I want to get a fast time as they are astonishingly fast - perhaps quicker than my GP4000S tubs, but I need to do some testing to prove that. The downside as others have said is sidewall durability. I've lost 2 to sidewall splits but the current pair seem to be surviving well at around 1500 miles. The rear is now the 'Evo' version though and I'd certainly recommend this over the regular ZX; sturdier sidewalls for very little weight penalty.

For what it's worth, I'm just coming up to 3000 miles on my ZX's (Ribble Stealth)so it's highly likely that I'll be replacing like for like when they finally do die on me. I usually run then at about 110psi and although I'm no featherweight, I've had nobbut a normal number of punctures and on the rural routes around North Yorkshire, that's pretty good going.

If I could afford to, I would run these all the time, but they wear hellishly fast. I've switched to the Durano S's for training and they last a lot longer without too massive a penalty - but even those have iffy sidewalls. Obviously something has to give when making light tyres at a reasonable cost.

i have used these and r1's since since early 2010 and have covered 1000's of miles mainly across dartmoor so hardly slick new roads. wet or dry all fine and i wont jinx my self but i have never had one of those things where you need to pull over get those lever things out of the saddle bag and that rolled up black piece of butyl and combine them...

best tyres i have ever used. fast as f==k

I used these for all of last summer (commuting, training and sportives) and they were fine as long as it was dry. As soon as it rained - punctured.

They're definitely fast tyres, and pretty robust given the light weight. I rode over a fair amount of debris with them and didn't have any problems with punctures. Until it rained.

I bought these to replace a pair of ageing Rubino pros after reading the all too positive reviews in C+. 4 rides later and 3 punctures and one ripped sidewall leading to another puncture.I was running them at 110 at the front and 115 at the rear, i only weigh 66k and i ride quite conservatively, avoiding potholes and the like. Very dissapointed not least because the punctures occurred on long solo rides one of which was in the rain. Swapped to gators just to avoid the fear, faff and mess of repairing puncures a long way from home.

Love them for racing - fastest standard clincher tyre around - especially if you team them up with latex tubes. Right about the sidewall though... very easy to get slashed if you are unlucky. The other cool thing about them is that you never need to use tyre levers

How good is the rolling resistance compared to vittoria corsa cx?

I disagree with the durability rating

I got a 28mm set of ZXs and used them on PBP

PBP is 1200km and I also was riding around Paris before/after
Since then I've used them on the spare bike for going up the pub on horrible lanes

I agree they are light and fast and probably not the best tyres for durability ever but they seem as good as something like a Michelin Pro

How much do you want for them?

I can tell you from personal experience that it is best to stay away from theses Schwalbe Ultremo ZXs, at least the graphite ones. I read some great reviews on Bikeradar, and got them for sportives. I had two punctures on the first ride, and on the second, the rear side wall blew out on a quick descent that almost threw me off the bike. Since then I've changed to Conti GP4000S and have had no problems, with just as good rolling speed. The Reviewer is right on, these tyres have important faults and mine are collecting dust now in the garage.