Road tire Folding tire Grand Prix Supersonic Continental

Road tire Folding tire Grand Prix Supersonic Continental

The Continental Grand Prix Supersonic is pure efficiency: time and track specialists benefit from its first-class rolling characteristics.

Pure competition tire with reduced mileage, without additional puncture protection. It's all in the mix.

This tire revolutionized the cycling scene with its unique tread compound, which is only produced in Germany. The legendary BlackChili compound has provided a lasting answer to the eternal question of grip versus rolling resistance.

Technical data:

Size: 28" x 20mm, 28" x 23mm
Air pressure: 8-10 bar
Carcass: 110 TPI
Weight: approx. 140 grams
Area of application: Competition, time trial, track
Material: BlackChili Compound
Color: black

The Supersonic technology

The Supersonic technology of the Grand Prix Supersonic from Continental focuses primarily on high speed. To achieve this goal, this tire has no puncture protection and is therefore much lighter. Time trial and track specialists benefit from the first-class rolling characteristics.

The mixture

The crucial question in cycling. The running properties of a tire's rubber compound are largely determined by three interacting factors - static friction [grip], rolling resistance and mileage. The dilemma: If one of these factors is improved, at least one other factor deteriorates in return. A tire with maximum grip wears more quickly and rolls more slowly. If you make the tire faster or more durable, its grip is reduced.

With the BlackChili Compound, a tread compound that is always based on the latest findings in polymer and raw material research, Continental has provided the cycling scene with a lasting answer. Depending on the area of use of a tire, Continental adjusts the compound recipe specifically - whether for road bikes or mountain bikes, for time trials or downhill.

For BlackChili, Continental refines special synthetic rubbers with proven natural rubber to create particularly high-performance tread compounds. Continental then adds carbon black particles to these compounds, which in turn are optimized in terms of shape and surface properties. The complex compound technology is so sensitive that tires with BlackChili Compound are produced exclusively in Korbach.

On request, we can mount the tires on the wheelset or enclose them separately. Just ask us.