Teams Using Continental Tires - Page 12

07-17-2004, 11:13 AM

You're joking, right? Continental offers sponsorship, and some teams to
whom it is offered accept it. Others prefer to be sponsored by
Vittoria, Hutchinson, Michelin, etc. As the teams consider the (free to
them) tires to be disposable, they don't care if they last 500 miles or
not - they only have to get through 200 miles before they throw them
away and put on new (free) ones.

Conti's are good tires, but let's take choice of equipment for what it
pretty much is.

Churchill wrote:

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> Continental tyres will be at the Tour as the official supplier to four
> of the teams that have qualified for the race. Jan Ullrich's T-Mobile
> squad will be riding Continental for the seventh consecutive season.
> Tyler Hamilton, another big favourite will be riding for the swiss
> Phonak team who will use Continental Competition & Tempo tubulars.
> Credit Agricole and Lotto-Domo will also ride on Conti rubber, as they
> do every year. They believe in the product and trust that Continental
> tyres will supply reliability, speed and unrivalled grip in pursuit of
> Tour de France glory.
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> I would be interested to know what USPS is using for tires ! Anyone know ??