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Tech specs
Price: $81.99 / £54.99 / €58.95
Weight: 544 grams – size 45mm
Widths: 40 / 45mm
Casing: Vittoria Endurance
When autumn comes, and my local gravel and off-road loops are a little slicker and muddier, i’ll have a little slide or moment in a turn and think to myself, ‘just be careful; remember what tyres you’re on’.
Enter the Vittoria Terreno T90 Mud, the Italian brand’s most aggressive gravel model.
The T90 evolved from the Terreno Wet model, and in Vittoria’s words, is ‘engineered for performance in the most extreme gravel conditions’. It shares the same tread as the old Terreno Wet, and sits at one end of Vittoria’s updated gravel range.
I fitted these tyres early in the winter, and have used them exclusively until now. I’ve used them in the mud, rain, ice and snow, and they have seriously impressed me. If you want to fit a winter gravel tyre that prioritises grip when the weather starts to turn and run with it all winter, knowing it will have your back, this could be the tyre for you.
Design and aesthetics
Vittoria overhauled its gravel tyre range and introduced new classification ratings last year. There’s now a numerical severity grading scale to help you choose.
The T90’s sit at one end of the Vittoria gravel endurance range, aside from the now all brown gravel race models.
The Endurance range starts at T10, and runs through T30,50,60,70,80 and 90 models. Essentially, the larger the number, the more aggressive the tyre is.
The T90’s do share the same tread as the old Terreno Wet. I thought it was slightly different, but Vittoria confirmed that it is the same to me.
Specs-wise, the tyres are available in 40 and 45mm sizes, and in brown and black sidewall colour options.
The Endurance range tyres benefit from the 100 TPI (threads per inch)…
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