[rwest]

Tire wise, I've been using Michelin Pro Race on my road bike with pretty good results. First set of tires that I used where Vittorias and I can't agree with the others- I had flat after flat. Mentioned them to the guys at the track and they said, "oh, Flattorias?" so apparently it wasn't just me, although I don't remover what model I used, they would have been a higher end. Also, this was about fifteen years ago. Lots of time for improvement.

I "dream"of an independent test lab that figures out a set of parameters including flat resistance that would test just about every tire each year and publish a report!