Continental is launching the ContiMotion EVO, the highly anticipated successor to its popular ContiMotion sport-touring tire. Packing a variety of product innovations, this new tire is designed specifically for riders who value a perfect balance of riding excitement, maximum safety, and impressive mileage.
"With the ContiMotion EVO, we are offering a highly versatile sport-touring tire," says Christoph Ettenhuber, Head of Business Field Motorcycle Tires at Continental. "It combines an intuitive riding feel with reliable grip in both wet and dry conditions—all while delivering everyday mileage you can count on."
Compared to its predecessor, the ContiMotion EVO delivers a range of technical enhancements. Brand-new carcass materials provide additional stability and consistency, resulting in better handling and far more agile riding dynamics. This is perfectly complemented by an updated compound designed to elevate performance on both wet and dry roads.
The Continental ContiMotion EVO stands out thanks to four core characteristics:
Intuitive and Agile Handling: Continental's EasyHandling technology and an optimized tire construction ensure precise and predictable steering reactions at all times, maximizing your riding fun.
Maximum Confidence: An optimized hybrid-silica tread compound guarantees reliable grip, whether the road is bone-dry or soaking wet.
High Mileage: An advanced rubber compound and a specially developed tread pattern deliver long-lasting performance.
High-Speed Stability: The proven ZeroDegree steel belt construction, combined with new carcass materials, keeps the bike completely stable at high speeds.
"The ContiMotion EVO has been updated in all the crucial areas without losing the well-known, fundamental qualities of its predecessor," explains Ettenhuber. "Riders will directly benefit from a noticeably more agile tire."
The ContiMotion EVO is expertly engineered for both sporty weekend blasts and long-distance touring enthusiasts. It is an excellent fit for a wide variety of motorcycles, including the BMW R12 nineT, Triumph Daytona 660, Ducati Supersport 950, Honda CB 650R, Suzuki GSX-8TT, and Yamaha MT-09. As Ettenhuber notes, the tire perfectly suits a "wide range of popular naked bikes, roadsters, and modern classics."
The following sizes will be rolling into our webshop starting this fall:
| Position | Tire Size | Availability |
| Front | 120/70 ZR 17 M/C (58W) TL | September 2026 |
| Rear | 160/60 ZR 17 M/C (69W) TL | September 2026 |
| Rear | 180/55 ZR 17 M/C (73W) TL | September 2026 |
| Rear | 190/50 ZR 17 M/C (73W) TL | November 2026 |
Fresh out of the mold, the ContiMotion presents a new product for the low-end range. Unlike other tire manufacturers, who offer older models as budget low-end products, Continental has developed the Conti Motion, an innovative technology based on a whole new concept, to serve the needs of this sector.
High priority was attached, in particular, to good handling, with ample feedback and a correspondingly strong feeling of safety, on dry as well as wet roads. A newly formulated rubber compound with modified polymer chains exerts an especially favorable influence on the price-performance ratio. Despite price-conscious costing, the very latest design methods were employed. The O-degree steel belt, for example, ensures the immense stability for which Continental motorcycle tires are famous.
The newly designed, force-direction-oriented tread pattern combines good mileage performance with excellent water drainage. Continental is thus surging to the fore with a truly contemporary, high-quality radial tire for budget-minded customers. It is head and shoulders above what the competition has to offer in this sector – namely the Bridgestone BT 020, Dunlop D 207, Metzeler ME-Z 4, Michelin Pilot Macadam 100/Road and Pirelli GTS.
The ContiMotion will be available in the following dimensions as of April/May 2008:
front
120/60 ZR17 (55W)
120/70 ZR17 (58W)
rear
160/60 ZR17 (69W)
180/55 ZR17 (73W)
190/50 ZR17 (73W)
