milkbaby

Maybe I missed this or it got moved, but Specialized is having a buy one tire, get one tire free promotion on their website and in their dealer stores.

The four models on sale are the S-works Turbo, Turbo Pro, Roubaix Pro, and Armadillo Elite. Anybody digging these particular tires? I was almost tempted to get some Armadillos as a substitute for Gatorskins, but the Google seems to say they are heavy and roll terrible.

garysol1 

I have been riding the Roubaix Pro 23/25 almost exclusively for the past year and have been very very pleased. Excellent wear and puncture resistance, excellent handling and a nice ride quality. They are an excellent tire for daily use. I also have been using the S-Works Turbo 24c tire on my carbon wheels and they at least "feel" fast. Very light and supple and so far no flats but I only have a couple hundred miles on them.
When looking at reviews on Specialized tires throw out anything you read that is over a year old. They have done an outstanding job of revamping their tires.

Willbird

I picked up two sets at the LBS and they said they got one batch in, and when it sold it was done, got armadillo pro for the hybrid and turbo pro for the road bike, would have rather had Roubix pro but those were cleaned out except the 30/32's. They seem like nice tires but what do I know :-).

jsigone

I got the Armadillo Elite in 25c on friday, shop had nothing for 28c as the other BWR folks cleaned them out. Super stiff to mount than found out 120 tpi...ouch!! broken them in saturday with a 142mi/13k vertical. And 30+ of that was on dirt. I'm about 200# and ran them 85/90 cuz the stiff side wall. Rode fine, still pretty fast, could run them bit lower in pressure though. No problems at all. traction was as expected on DG.

Not as soft of a tire as the conti GP2s (23c) I had on there but will handle the dirt abuse for BWR in two weeks and the price savings was nice