Welcome back to the Cycling Tips Podcast, everybody.

It is the week of February 8th,

and we've got a whole bunch of bike racing and tech to talk about.

Got most of the usual crew with us here today. Got Abbey and

Ronan and Shoddy and Dane. No James today. James is working on some other

projects at the moment, but as always got a great show for you.

Before we get into today's episode, Shoddy, what are we learning about Continental this week?

We are going to learn about Continental Gator Skin, hard shell.

Right, okay, personally growing up in the UK, I know it's a pain in the neck to change a flat tire

when you can barely feel your fingers and this is where the continental gator skin hard shells come into play. Now these play off the classic

continental gator skins they have an extra layer of punch of protection

perfect for this time of year. If you don't have to deal with the elements well they're

perfect for getting our off-roaded out and about on the rougher stuff if you're

into that sort of thing. The Gator skins are Continental's classic tyres.

It comes in a range of 23 millimeters up to Chunky 32s in both 650B, 26 inch and 27.

Another great quality of the gator skins is that they won't break the bank.

Now I know about this because these used to be, well still are the tire of choice when I was doing plenty of training back

up in the north west of the UK where the weather is absolutely filthy I think they

come in somewhere around the $34.28

euro mark but yeah these these ties are the ones that I

not I put hand on that I used to use all the time when I was growing up in the UK racing

Training in the winter and up there. Oh, it's terrible

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