Maxxis High Road £44.99

The Maxxis High Road has been used by the British Canyon-dhb team for the past couple of years and boasts a 120TPI casing, pretty standard for a high-end tyre.

The tyre uses new HYPR compound rubber, which it says reduces rolling resistance and increases grip over its previous rubber, while puncture protection is provided by a layer of K2 kevlar, lighter than its standard sibling. Both tyres seated easily on our test wheels and the 25mm width came up as a true measurement on the calipers.

All that tech does seem to have been successful and out on the road they feel supple and grippy – the two biggest asks of any tyre. In the crosswinds of some recent storms, we didn’t once feel like the bike might slip out from under us, despite some fairly aggressive and impromptu lean angles.

Plus, while they could never be expected to turn the pockmarked roads of Surrey into a magic carpet ride, they did feel a little more pliable and compliant than many of their rivals.

Maxxis High Road tyres are of course intended as a ‘race day tyre’, but after a few short weeks of daily testing and abusing them on some of the most gravelly torn-up back lanes we could find, they coped incredibly well. We didn’t have a single puncture, even on rides where our club mates succumbed to several, and the surface of the tyre had no major cuts after the first few hundred miles of abuse.

If you’re in the market for a top-end tyre and don’t mind paying a top-end price of around £90 a set of Maxxis High Roads, then these are definitely worth considering. In fact, compared to some of the other tyres on test, the High Roads are actually quite good value. Options: 25, 28mm freewheel.co.uk