Look out for an all-new Schwalbe G-One RS semi-slick gravel race tire, coming quickly! We noticed the brand new tires whereas digging again on some current professional gravel racing. However with Unbound Gravel set to kick off in Emporia, Kansas in simply a few weeks’ time, we’d be stunned to not see the fast-rolling tire make an even bigger debut there… that’s, if it may well stand as much as the notoriously unforgiving flint!
Prototype Schwalbe G-One RS semi-slick gravel race tire
all images c. Wilier Triestina
Schwalbe’s present quickest gravel tire is the G-One R, debuted final June in Emporia, with its tightly-spaced, low-profile ‘boomerang’ tread blocks and a more-supple Tremendous Race casing development.
Now this new Schwalbe G-One RS semi-slick seems to be to take gravel racing tires to the following degree, with a minimalist middle tread and shoulder knobs that attain in from the aspect for grip whereas cornering.
You possibly can’t conceal that new tire identify with a Sharpie, so simply!
What’s new?
Wilier professional gravel racer Ivar Slik rode the brand new tires to win Girona’s Traka 200 on the primary of Might, by only a second after nearly 6 1/2 hours. Did that smooth-rolling middle tread make the distinction?
Tech particulars?
The Schwalbe G-One RS remains to be formally only a prototype, so we don’t have any actual particulars on the brand new semi-slick gravel race tire. However they appear rather a lot just like the G-One R, so we’d assume they share the identical Tremendous Race carcass, Addix Race rubber, Tremendous Race V-Guard puncture safety, and TLE tubeless-ready bead & casing.
What nearly seems {smooth} within the middle from the entrance is definitely a zig-zagging herringbone-like tread sample that seems barely raised to the rear for further grip going straight.
Cornering management is obtainable by a single longer ‘boomerang’-style knob that extends into the transition space, adopted by three smaller similarly-shaped lugs that oscillate up and down the shoulder for extra grip the deeper you lean right into a unfastened nook.
We suspect the brand new pure rubber ‘Clear Pores and skin’ sidewall tire will probably are available 40 & 45mm variations just like the G-One R, and promote for a similar 73€ as soon as it launches later this summer time. It would even weigh rather less with much less tread down the middle.
And sure, these aero carbon Miche Graff Route gravel race wheels are new too. Preserve an eye fixed out for the small print on them quickly.
