Originally Posted by
mdilthey
That Vittoria is nice. Any experience with the durability over the tire? I don't mind getting only ~3,000 miles, but any less and I'd be better off going with the Grand Bois line. I am wondering how the vittoria voyager hyper compares to the schwalbe marathon supreme, specifically in sidewall strength, since that's the main failure of my schwalbes.
I haven't experienced any sidewall tears with the Hyper. As I recall, Vittoria's original marketing materials for the Hyper claimed that it was specifically designed to resist tears. Puncture protection is decent, but punctures
can happen. As much as I love the Hyper, I've switched to the Vittoria Randonneur Pro. It's slightly heavier, but seems to have better puncture protection as a result. I also found the Hyper to wear pretty quickly. You can get 3,000 miles out of them but probably not a whole lot more. The Randonneur Pro seems to be wearing well, but I only have 1500 miles on them so far so the jury is still out.