I can the see reason you are striving for, but making a tyre square will make it handle like a bag of shit when on the shoulder. this is an extremely misleading article to back up your opinion not fact! Tubeless is the way forward though.

you lot need to stop bitching about the price of tyres, its only going to get worse. 1. the raw material prices have gone through the roof, one of the ingredients for rubber for tyres is from the oil industry........ 2. the tyres are manufactured in Taiwan, it is no longer a second or third world country, workers are being paid more getting closer in line to north america and Europe 3. don't try and compare prices of car tyres to dh tyres. its economies of scale. think how many car tyres are produced a year in relation to the number of dh tyres stop and think for a minute before making retarded statements about a subject you know nothing about.

Looks familiar............ http://www.conti-tyres.co.uk/conticycle/ti%20kaiser.shtml

There are also quite a few high profiled riders trying Conti's out that are on tyre deals with other manufacturers. See if you can spot who they are!!

Conti have been doing loads of R&D with the Atherton's this year. There are a few races where they have used Maxxis. This was due to Proto tyres not being made often enough. There is a spike that will be released very soon, keep you eyes peeled on www.conti-tyres.co.uk . There will be some Kaisers and Der Baron's released soon at a similar RRP to Maxxis.

Keep your eyes peeled for a Conti spike, the Athies have been designing one that will be launched in the spring!

you back in aber? we are going over to the sandramps if you want to ride or do some clicking?