The recent North American Handmade Bicycle Show was a bastion of tradition and classic styling, but that didn't stop the folks from Continental from showing off its new high-performance rubber compound dubbed Black Chili.
The new material incorporates rubber compound particles as small as 10nm in diameter (otherwise known as 0.00000001m, or really, really, really tiny), or roughly ten times smaller than what is typically used. Continental claims that Black Chili delivers the ultimate combination of tire characteristics: the smaller particles yield more points of contact with the road surface (offering enhanced grip), are more tightly bound to each other (reducing wear), and the resultant structure is more flexible (lowering rolling resistance).
Black Chili will find its way into both road and mountain tires, including the Grand Prix 4000S (black tread only), Grand Prix Supersonic, Digga, SpeedKing Supersonic, and Explorer Supersonic.
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