Continental Grand Prix 4 Season

Used to ride these in the winter until about 3 years ago and found them to be pretty reliable if not that quick. The roads where I ride are more like farmtracks in the winter so you need somthing fairly robust. I switched to Schwalbe S-Ones a couple of years ago and loved them. very quick, grippy and comfortable, obviously self sealed small punctures very quickly but did cut on the very rare occasion requiring a tube. They also wore out very quickly but I was prepared to trade that for the other attributes.

This year I have been running GP5000 tubeless and to say the 4 Seasons gives away little to it in terms of speed is not my experience. So far I am blown away by how quick it is at relatively low (comfortable) pressures. Way grippier than 4 seasons and so far no punctures. Lets see how they hold up to a winter of abuse. 

Agree with comments above, no tubeless, no sale.

What is the point of 'an all weather's tyre which is tubes only? I've run them a bunch, they do puncture, and they arent that quick or trippy
Schwalbe over took them 3 or 4 years ago.

Tubeless all the way, summer and winter. Conti way behind...

Don't like these at all, came up narrower than GP4000s,  felt like a harsher ride and had less grip. Maybe you gain some puncture protection, I don't know, but all the trade offs are not worth that.

I was a big fan of them for my commute until I changed my route and encountered 'cobbles'. The cobbles in question are those that form the edge of tarmacced roads. On more than one occasion I've had the front tyre go sideways as I've turned into a side road and transitioned across these cobbles. Oddly enough, the Vittoria Corsa's on my summer hoops never let go on the same cobbles, even in the wet. The GP4's are otherwise very grippy, if a little slow.

Has very mixed experiences with them on my commute (I'm sure they'd be far better on country roads). Basically they cut up and puncture far easier than I would want for such an expensive tyre.

Basically they are no better than cheaper but similar options from other brands. Hopefully when they go tubeless they'll get a decent update for both versions

I use the GP5000 (25mm) and Schwalbe One Evolution (30mm) on my bikes. If Conti made the GP5000 in 30mm I would use those to but 32mm is a bit to wide and 28mm not wide enough. The GP5000 is strong enough for everything except gravel.

Finally got rid of my last one of these on Ebay for £32 which is what I paid for it initially. Won't go back to them cause of the sidewall thing, now running Wiggle own brand tyre and apart from a snakebite at 35mph they have been far more reliable so far.

No tubeless. No sale 

There's cheaper tyres out there which are as good, if not better than these like the Pro 4 Endurance and the Durano. 

Given that Conti now make road tubeless tyres it's strange how there isn't a tubeless version of this tyre yet. 

I've had too many failures of these tyres, over the years, to use them anymore. In my experience, the side walls are a particular Achilles heel, but I've had a couple of carcass failures as well. The puncture resistance is fairly meh as well.

They seem to be the popular 'go to' autumn/ winter tyre. I've used them and they're okay, nothing particularly outstanding. And, if truth be told, on the rural/semi-rural roads were I ride, they're all at sea. A tyre with small knobs is a better choice when the road can be full of soil/mud from the adjoining fields.

Had some of these. they said 28mm but came up to 26mm...that's how they are light then.

They slid and i came off too when I didn't expect them too.

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still not tubeless! it's 2020 soon

Have there been new version of these tires, or are the same as the ones I had in 2014? According to the pictures they are absolutely the same. They were ok back then, but there are much better tires these days. Also they are not tubeless.

One of the best tyres out there as far as I'm concerned.  Agree with the comments about them being quick (23's on 17 internals for me) and I've never had an issue with punctures.  Now that I think about it; I don't think I've ever punctured on them (tempting fate with that one!).

However, a friend of mine has had no end of issues with punctures and poor quality so maybe it's a hit & miss thing? Which it shouldn't be, obviously. 

"For riders who want to carry their summer speed through the winter without puncturing, these are the tyres for the job"

Sorry but for far too many people who have ridden the GP4S this is a complete contrast to their experiences including mine. The tyres feel dead/unresponsive and sluggish, you do not keep your "summer speed" at all as they feel really draggy, they might have some additional grip in the wet but whatever micro improvement over x tyre I couldn't tell but having some unmeasurable extra grip at the expense of how they are much less a quality ride and lower performance (over Giant P-SL2s in 28mm) would simply not be worth it at all.

As for puncture resistance, hard numbers like tyre/sidewall thickness don't always tell the whole story, whilst I never puctured on the 4s before I siold them on (after circa  65 miles, it was a long while before I had a puncture on the Giant tyres. I once got a puncture within 18 miles of using a gatorskin straight out the packet.

For me I would never buy them ever again
 

One of the most underwhelming tyres I've ridden when compared to the hype.  They feel no grippier in the cold/wet that GP4000, Clement, Hutchinson, Maxxis, Schwalbe tyres I've tried.  They don't roll very nicely and I've had as many punctures on these as I have on other brands, plus they're covered in cuts after not much use (though at least the puncture protection below the rubber must be doing something).  Had these sliding under rear wheel braking in the wet more than other tyres too.

So the talk of their compound being better suited to cold conditions I think is just spin.

I think this is going to become the new norm, lots of issues with tight tyres on tubeless rims!

Mine went onto my DT R460s with one layer of DT Tape nice and easy, and the only issue on my Fulcrum Racing 3s was the tube getting stuck under the bead at the valve, needs some jiggling as you inflate.

Hoping they go up OK on my new Pacentis...

I put a set of these on earlier this year (700x28), albeit a slightly older set, and have had 2 punctures in them - one of which was a bit of flint through the thickest bit of tread.

They are also a total nightmare to get seated on my (tubeless compatible) rims - have to pump them up to ridiculous pressure and leave them overnight!

I prefer the Grand Prix GT, which have been just as durable as GP 4 Seasons but feel grippier, which is pretty important at this time of year.

I spent on them around 2000 miles (May-October 2019) and I had few (3) punctures - actually the day after I put the new ones - never on the old ones.

Apart from that, they - are superb (mine are 700x25): comfortable, grippy etc.

Right now I use them on 3 bikes (my wife and a kid) - all the same size.

And I was the only one with puctures - what to say: snakes bite sometimes

And regarding price - yea, I bought them on sale (Chain Reaction Cycles) so paid 44£ for a pair so I find it very good deal.

Have been my winter commuting tyre of choice, no punctures that weren't my fault (too low pressure or clumsy fitting).

Looking forward to trying some 32s on the new winter bike!