Specialized Ground Control Ground Control

Versatile XC and trail tread. Archived pages (2Bliss Ready and Sport) describe an FEA optimized tread in 2.1/2.3 widths; later pages describe a Block-In-Block design in 2.2/2.35 widths without Specialized calling it a new generation, so they are kept together. Includes Sport (wire bead) and kids 20/24 inch wire bead versions, and the dual compound T5/T7 TLR versions (Flex Lite and Grid Lite casings) online from 2026-04. Specialized sold this tread under its 2Bliss Ready naming with several casings (Control, Grid, Grid Trail, Grid Gravity, BLCK DMND) and compounds (GRIPTON, later T5, T7, T9); each casing and compound page is a separate Specialized product, merged here as variants. Pages that Specialized has archived show model year 2019, which looks like a site default rather than a launch year, so the first year is left null. list_price_usd is the lowest regular variant price on specialized.com (US) in 2026-09 across non archived product pages; archived product pages keep a last listed price per variant (last_listed_price_usd) that is not used as a current price.