Nope; the Eroicas were a 700c tire, as are the P-Rs. Challenge doesn't make 559 tires at all; the only mountain tires they make are 29er and 650B tubulars.
When the L'Eroica folks in Tuscany terminated their sponsorship deal with Challenge and signed a deal with Continental, Challenge renamed their 30mm gravel/road tire as Strada Bianca, and did a dual-layer puncture protection (PPS) change, heavying the tire up a bit, in an effort to address the alleged fragility of the P-R design. The current-gen P-Rs have the same dual-PPS layer. I'm not clear whether the change was made in both models at the same time, but that seems likely. As a company, Challenge seems to be aggressively clueless about selling tires into the US market. I had my LBS (Missing Link in Berkeley CA) pursue them for Eroica/Strada Bianca skinwall tubulars for nearly a year, but they kept saying, "oh, *signore*; you can buy them at your local shop" (*we are a local shop; how do we buy them*?). Euro-Asia and QBP are distributors, but Euro-Asia hasn't updated to list the Strada Bianca (maybe they still have Eroicas?), and QBP's catalog lists only a limited range - no skinwalls at all. Honestly, who would want to buy spendy fatso road tires except us retro-fetishists? Who do they think is buying these things? Unless you get a buy off CL or eBay, I think the best Challenge bet for a US buyer is Wiggle in the UK; they seem to have a fairly complete selection, at rather appealing prices. I'll support local merchants when I can, but there has to be a limit. http://www.wiggle.com/cycle/tires/?ea=4294789336 Patrick, if you're using older P-Rs, aren't you getting...(ahem) *adverse results* from those goatherds? Peter Adler who doesn't have to deal with Mother Nature's wrathful debris, but only the city trash of his fellow man in Berkeley, CA/USA On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 12:33:58 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > I'll have to look up the Eroicas. Don't suppose they are made in the 559 > or 571 sizes .... > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Ron Mc <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Patrick, I found a pair of Eroicas, which have have the same single PPS >> as the P-Rs. I run pressures way down, it doesn't slow them down, and it's >> like riding on a cloud. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
