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If I buy Elite Novo Force, is an indoor trainer tyre like Coperton a must to protect the longetivity of the rear tyre?
Is that product more towards MTBs to reduce the sound element while pedalling but still a good practice to be considered even for road bikes with slick tyres?
You can use road tyres on turbo trainers, which I used to do many years back. The problem is that there is a lot of heat and often a lot of pressure at the contact point, so the tyre wears down a lot quicker than it would normally. You also end up with a lot of tyre residue building up on the turbo trainer wheel, which you need to scrape off.
Turbo-trainer specific tyres are a lot harder wearing. They will last a lot longer and you won't have as much tyre residue to deal with. One caveat is that some turbo-trainer specific tyres do have a soft layer that wears off first before exposing the harder material underneath.
As turbo-trainer specific tyres are hard-wearing it means they have very little grip and so shouldn't be used on the road.
