Vittoria Corsa Pro review: A year with the peloton’s favourite cotton tyre

The latest edition of the Vittoria Corsa Pro has been around (officially) since May 2023, though it was widely used in the peloton before this, and I initially rode them a month prior at a press event. Given the tyre’s heavy use in the pro peloton, along with excellent testing results in independent rolling resistance tests, it sits squarely within my guide to the best road bike tyres, but what are they actually like to ride? 

Rolling resistance data can only tell you so much, and while for pure performance they certainly have their place, there’s more to tyres than how fast they roll on a drum mounted to a jig. I’ve been running the Corsa Pros for over a year on various bikes now, and in order to get a real flavour for them, I’ve not only ridden them in the de facto ‘normal’ 28c width, but also in a 32c option, to see how they fare against the latest and greatest in wider rubber.

The short story is that I really like these tyres, though as with almost everything ever, they aren’t without fault. They’re absolutely beautiful to ride, especially in larger volume sizes, but I have suffered slightly with how they fare when set up tubeless.

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