Skinwalls... or not?

Dead Rats

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OK so my GT is finished but I keep trying to think what it would look like with amber/skinwalls as I have a set of NOS IRC Mythos here. Anyone with any more vision than me care to comment as I'm thinking white frame with skinwalls might look a bit anemic?

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once you've had black you never go back.

my take on amberwalls is that they look nice but everytime i've fitted some i then dont ride the bike.
 
The problem with skinwalls is all the grime and sludge you get on them from the brake pads as they eat away your rims on a gritty winter ride.

As you're considering them on a bike with discs then you've avoided that problem already.

In terms of that particular bike, I think that black walls will probably suit it better anyway. A set of Continental tyres with their orange walls might look okay, put pale skin wall tyres will, as you say, look a bit anaemic.

Try it, photograph it, show us and then decide.
 
gm1230126":3vu0evir said:
What year is the frame? Looks newer and if so skinwalls were pretty much gone by then so it doesn't make sense to have them on then does it?

05 I think, but I don't really give a monkey's about period correctness, not with this build anyway :LOL: ;)
 
Thread resurrection alert !

Now that the 728 is on Panaracers, I had a pair of Schwalbe City Jets (26x1.95) to spare. Decided to put them on my modern, and this is the result.

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I'm pretty pleased with the way it looks, but I don't think many moderns can pull this off without looking ridiculous.
 
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