Tyres: old school or new school... ?

[sunchaser]

:shock: Retro tyres seem to be a bit thin on the ground these days, so what do you guy's use? :?

I recently sold all my Ritchey 'reds' which looked ace but, I could'nt get on with them. :cry:

I've started using Panaracer XC fire 1.8's. Not retro I know but they look ok on my white Kona & work fine for a skinny tyres

 

[flyingwelshman]

I still have some new original Ritchey z Max of various widths if anyone is interested

 

[amt27]

using some Panaracer trailrakers and some Onza porc reissues for summer

 

[tintin40]

I like modern stuff. I'm still using Conti 1.5 which new BITD so they are retro On the back use edge 1.9 folding. Not sure what to use in the summer. Most likely Contis

 

[sunchaser]

conti cross country 1.9's one of my all time fave' tyres...

how sad does that make me sound?

 

[P20]

Conti Gravities(F+R) for summer, Slash(R) and Vertical(F) for winter on the Yeti 575. IRC Mythos all year round on the P20. The Bontys having the Porc's removed and the Dart and Zmax combo reinstated.

 

[Augustus]

I think old ones look better. Nothing beats an amber wall/ black/ CD rim combination IMO.

But I use

Fire XC 1.8
Explorer 2.1
Cinder 1.95


Obviously not all at the same time or I'd need an amazing three wheeled bike.

 

[Dr S]

MMmmm, A lot of Conti love on here. I've used Vapours and Verticals all year and been really impressed with them- not very pricey too. A modern Classic?

Currently using rock hard perished butterscotch wildgrippers on the dale- new Panaracer Magic Blondes to go on. Funk will be wearing Porc II's

I've often wondered if it would be worthwhile a group of folk like ourselves getting together and having a batch of retro tyres remanufactured. This is common practice amongst classic car clubs for instance. Has it been discussed before??

Si

 

[FirstFlight]

We had a set of the Panaracer Timbuk II tires made up (see http://firstflightbikes.com/timbuktire.htm) and have looked at doing a natural tan sidewall Smoke tire.

If you can find the original molds for the tire, it is doable. If not, the mold runs about $5,000. When we did the Timbuks, they still had the mold but we still had to do 300 tires. They were made about 2.5 years ago and we just now made our money back on the project.

It we do the Smoke tires, the cost will be almost double the Timbuks (higher material costs, higher shipping costs and a more expensive tire construction).

You also run into the problem of who owns the molds and tread design. If you wanted to do a Specialzied Ground Control, you couldn't use the name or the tread pattern without permission from Specialized (which ain't gonna happen).

 

[FairfaxPat]

tires

I use tubeless tires exclusively these days-Maxxis High-Rollers in a 2.10 size currently, although I just heard good things about the Schwalbe Racing Ralph in tubeless from Gary Fisher today-when my current tires wear out I will buy a set. The Maxxis tires weigh only 680 grams and the Schwalbe weighs 590 in 2.1 size. Remember there is no additional 100-180 grams of tube with these tires, you can run them at really low pressures (30-32 pounds) with never a chance of a pinch-flat, and in the year and a half I have been running tubeless I have never had a flat.