Tag archive for ‘grifo’

  • Helen Wyman gets Technical with Challenge Tires to Create the Limus XS 3

    Wyman and Challenge worked together on the Limus XS 3.

    Kona’s Helen Wyman is one of the best known women racing ’cross today, on either side of the Atlantic. With a whole host of wins on US soil, as well as some solid finishes in Europe, she’ll be a force to be reckoned with at Worlds next weekend and at Cincinnati for Kings CX in [...]

  • Tire Review: Challenge Grifo Open Cyclocross Tire Review

    Challenge Grifo Open cyclocross tire. © Cyclocross Magazine

    A tread that’s been around longer than most ‘cross racers has gotta be pretty good, and these “open tubular” Challenge tires, sporting the legendary Clement tread, are great all-around tires that can handle most conditions well.

  • Clement Returns to Cyclocross With Clincher Tire and Cross Vegas Sponsorship

    Clement, the brand that brought you the original Grifo cyclocross tire, is making its return to U.S. soil with this season under Donn Kellogg, formerly of Challenge USA. Kellogg plans to bring a slew of cyclocross and road tires to the market starting this fall, and one of his first tires will be a nylon [...]

  • The Grifo Tread: Perfected Decades Ago or Far From Perfect?

    NOS Clement Grifo tubulars on eBay - The perfect tire, aged to perfection?

    Cyclocross technology has come a long way. Nowadays racers can walk into a store and walk out with an 18 pound carbon ‘cross bike with an ultralight, stiff, carbon frame and fork with oversized tubes, headsets, and bottom brackets, easily adjustable brakes, an amazing 20 speeds (and indexed!) and complete with clipless pedals. Yet on [...]



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