Silca launches its first tyres with famously tyre-agnostic Dylan Johnson – who insists he’s not selling out

For a professional cyclist, signing a new equipment sponsor is hardly unusual. For Dylan Johnson, signing with a tyre sponsor is different.

The professional gravel racer, coach and YouTuber has spent his career purposefully unattached to any one tyre brand, preferring the freedom to test, scrutinise and race whatever he believed was fastest.

“I purposefully have not had a tyre sponsor for my entire career because I think that tyres are probably the most important equipment choice that gravel cyclists make,” Johnson told Cycling Weekly . “And I didn’t want to compromise by being beholden to one brand.”