Description Love at first Contact.
Designed for long-lasting performance over a variety of road types and terrains, Continental's Contact Plus Tire provides exceptional puncture protection and versatile grip to make your next bike tour worry-free.
This updated version of the Contact features Continentals most popular tread design from all of their touring tires. With a smooth center rolling surface with textured shoulders, the semi-smooth tire's chevroned surface easily drives water, mud, muck, and other undesirables to the edges. Featuring Continent's SafetyPlus technology, this tire takes the SafetySystem Breaker and combines it with a highly elastic material, resulting in an extremely puncture and cut resistant casing that even lowers rolling resistance. Additionally, the SafetyPlus Breaker even meets the demands of high-speed e-bikes capable of speeds up to 50 km/h.
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Wow these rock!
by bjmainwood
Daily Commuter
Milwaukee, Wi
3 of 4 customers found this review helpful.
I was using the Continental Touring Plus Reflex but now that I've switch to these they are great. They have a much longer life span. My only minor complaint is they are a little load on the road.
Reviewed 9/21/2018
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Excellent upgrade to a brand new Ebike
by Jimbo in Illinois
Cycling Enthusiast
Illinois bike paths
1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
These are perfect for an E-bike. My wife's new $2k Liv (Giant) E-bike came with some strange tires for the application - the standard tires were blocky tread with rather square shoulders. Not at all what you would want for a city bike application and not very good looking either. My bike dealer agreed and said he would swap out. I picked these Continental's and they are really nice. With the reflective strip side wall they not only look outstanding but ride nicer and quieter than the OE tires. They are not light weight, but perfect for the heavy and fast E-bike.
Reviewed 8/23/2018
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Continental has a winner!
by Jim L.
Cycling Enthusiast
Lincoln, Nebraska
1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
Replaced the Giant Crosscuts that came stock on my Roam 2 with these in 42mm width (from the 37mm that were on). On my normal route the first thing I noticed was my average speed went up 1 mph. Handling is excellent on pavement, and great on the crushed limestone trails.Rolling resistance is obviously less. Reflective strip on sidewall a plus. Highly recommend.And relatively inexpensive.
Reviewed 8/17/2018
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Good for Commutes
by AustinBrooks
Daily Commuter
Aliso Viejo
5 of 5 customers found this review helpful.
I used these tires commuting on the road and riding technical trails on my way home riding cyclocross. They're really fast on the pavement and great on hard packed dirt roads. I really would like some extra traction on rock sections, but another tire is good for that. These tires were perfect when I was riding the gravelpavement pathway on my way to class, great on the road, and alright on technical trails
Reviewed 5/21/2018
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I like good tires that are fast & grippy, all weather conditions or even light off-road
by Steven Bowman
Casual Cyclist
Baltimore,MD
2 of 3 customers found this review helpful.
Just daily riding on a custom built 29700c urban transport or century mileage, and through in some dirt tails amazingly work well in all conditions .
Reviewed 4/16/2018
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Great E-bike tire, rolls fast. OEM's had 3 flats in a week. These replaced them working great
by Anonymous
Cycling Enthusiast
St. Helens OR
1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
Got a new Vado E-bike and OEM tires had 3 flats in a week. Ride mostly road and gravel. They had week sidewalls. These tires have enough tread and sidewall strength for how I use my bikes, though I have not tried and lite single track. I think they will work fine. E-bikes are great fun and these tires really help.
Reviewed 8/20/2018
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