Let’s get one thing straight: I’m a huge Vittoria fan. Over the years, I’ve trained on Rubino Pros and raced on the famous Corsa tubulars.
In 2023, Vittoria celebrates 70 years, most of them dedicated to high-performance tyres. It has nailed the formula with the Corsa concoction, and the brand is a regular in the pro peloton because of it. However, in the shop I worked at we used to say that Corsa must be Italian for paper, and Rubino for rock, because even though Corsa was the quickest rubber you could buy, it was notoriously fast-wearing. And although the Rubinos were incredibly durable, they were a little weighty.
Vittoria has addressed each of these issues with the new Vittoria N.ext (which you’ll usually see branded as N.EXT). Glenn Lee,…