Originally Posted by exile

I really can't think of a bike tire that is made for water that isn't marketing fluff.

Originally Posted by zachsilvey

There is no such thing as a rain tire for a bike especially a road bike. There simply isn't enough of a contact patch for water channels in the tires to do anything and you can't hydroplane with high pressure tires. There is a table here http://www.sheldonbrown.com/tires.html that says to hydroplane with a tire at 100 PSI you would have to exceed 104 MPH.