A new lighter Pirelli P Zero Race Tub SL tubular

Only three years after its return to the world of professional cycling, Pirelli is about to launch an innovation that redefines the cycling tubular. The P Zero Race Tub SL will make its debut at the 2021 Giro d’Italia.

Source: Press Release

This new tubular, featuring a special inner tube, allows for a total weight reduction of over 10% while guaranteeing the same excellent characteristics of grip, rolling smoothness, and reliability. A formidable asset for Pirelli’s World Tour partner teams at the Giro d’Italia: BikeExchange (Simon Yates and Esteban Chaves), Trek-Segafredo (Nibali), and AG2R Citroën.

Male cyclist in BikeExchange kit on a turquoise Bianchi road bike, on a country road. — Estaban Chaves (Team BikeExchange). – @BikeExchange

The P Zero Race Tub SL is the culmination of a project that has undergone more than two years of development. While working on the first tubular, launched in 2018 with the Mitchelton-SCOTT team (now BikeExchange), Pirelli technicians received numerous requests and suggestions for modifications from professionals, notably, and first and foremost, weight reduction. Today, athletes are riding very high-performance bikes that do not always meet UCI weight limits.

Kevin Tabotta, Performance Director of Team BikeExchange, stated: “This new Pirelli tubular reduces the bike’s weight by almost 100g, a considerable improvement that is difficult to find in a high-level competition setup (…) I am impressed by the tests we have done (…) The tires performed exactly as we expected but now they are lighter! (…) I wouldn’t have thought it was possible to reduce the weight of a versatile, high-performance tubular for road racing so significantly, but Pirelli has succeeded.”