Pirelli P Zero Race range leads manufacturer’s range for road race bikes

P Zero Race TLR size range

• P Zero Race TLR 700x24C
• P Zero Race TLR 700x26C
• P Zero Race TLR 700x28C
• P Zero Race TLR 700x30C
• P Zero Race TLR SL 700x24C
• P Zero Race TLR SL 700x26C
• P Zero Race TLR SL 700x28C

Pirelli’s tubeless-ready road tyres are available in cycling shops and online in the EMEA, NAFTA and APAC markets from 28 July 2020

Pirelli has launched the tubeless P Zero Race TLR and P Zero Race TLR SL flagship tyres for high-performance cycling. The brand returned to cycling in June 2017, reflecting a recent trend for global tyre brands producing new tyres for pedal-powered two-wheelers following global growth in cycling. Three years after the launch of the P Zero Velo clincher, Pirelli says the new tubeless-ready road tyres complete its cycling tyre range.

The new tyres were developed in collaboration with two World Tour teams with world championship pedigree: Mitchelton-Scott and Trek-Segafredo, respectively the teams of Annemiek Van Vleuten, Mads Pedersen and Vincenzo Nibali. The tyres are expected to receive an official debut in UCI top division races. Pirelli says the tyres are the product of three years’ study and engineering and more than two years of road tests.

P Zero Race TLR range features

The P Zero Race TLR is designed as an all-round tyre, suitable for competition and training. Pirelli describes it as “almost a four-season tyre”, with a TLR casing reinforced by Pirelli TechWALL+ technology. It offers excellent grip, high smoothness and, above all, great puncture protection, at a low weight. It also has the easy handling expected of tubeless tyres.

P Zero Race TLR SL is designed for pure performance, in racing situations where fractions of a second count. It is designed to offer the key advantages of tubeless technology, from grip to smoothness, emphasising speed and handling at the highest levels. It is the lightest, highest performing cycling tyre Pirleli has ever produced.

SmartEVO advanced compound

The new Pirelli P Zero Race TLR range leads the company’s range of high-performance cycling tyres (Photo: Pirelli)

Pirelli’s new tubeless-ready tyres were made with SmartEVO, an innovative compound that’s an evolution of its original SmartNET. Pirelli says it has made use of its 110 year history of producing ultra-high-performance compounds for racing tyres in the production of the tyres, showing the increasing prominence of cycling tyres in premium tyre-makers’ core business.

SmartEVO is the latest creation of Pirelli chemists and uses three different polymers, each of which provides specific performance, ensuring a perfect balance of opposite characteristics. Pirelli says the compound offers “extremely balanced behaviors.” Its new ternary blend of latest generation polymers offers “intelligent” performance, resulting in better grip on dry and wet surfaces, very low rolling resistance and superior comfort.

Pirelli’s new TLR road tyres have been designed and tested on a wide range of rims available on the market. The scale of measures therefore takes into account modern rims, according to the latest ETRTO standards and provides the recommended pressures also according to the internal width of the channel on which the tyres are mounted. Pirelli says this level of detail is essential to ensure optimal performance on the variety of wheels offered in the panorama of modern cycling. Pirelli has also given extra attention to smaller details, such as the packaging Riders will find recommended pressures, wheel combinations, riding style, seasonality and more, printed on the TLR tyres’ packaging. It has also focused on sustainability, making the packaging from 100 per cent recyclable cardboard.