New Balloon Tire Available

[dougfisk]

This is a big deal - the first and only accurate reproduction of a vintage balloon tire:

http://thecabe.com/vbulletin/showth...tread-whitewall-tires-Pair-New-70-00-shipping

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=131074276657

 

[user 135]

That is too cool.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Those are nice!

Price seems good too!

Luke.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

Cool.

 

[kngtmat]

Cool & beautiful tires. Too bad my bikes are not worth what those tires are.

 

[nito900rr]

Very cool!

Nito

 

[menzorro]

I got a set from John and they look great. He was excellent to deal with and shipping was reasonable and fast.

 

[yoothgeye]

Fancy.

 

[Danimal]

He did a great job with those. I don't have a bike for them right now, but will probably order a set after the holidays. Be nice to have some for a future project.

 

[restodave]

It will be interesting to see how these do.

I contacted Coker Tires, manufacturers of repop tires for the automotive restoration hobby, to ask if they had considerred doing bike tires. They currently make a couple of 36x2 3/8 tires and tubes for their own line of extremely big wheeled bikes and i thought repop bicycle tires would be a good fit. They replied that they were not currently planning to do produce any reproduction bike tires. Maybe if they could be convinced there was a market for them....

 

[kscheel]

That is very cool. Hopefully this will inspire someone to repop some other vintage tire brands.

 

[dos cruiser]

I bought B.F. Goodrich tires from Coker years ago. These chain tires are real nice looking tires.

 

[HotRodRob]

Are these available in blackwalls? I could use a set for my pre-war Rollfast.

 

[dougfisk]

Are these available in blackwalls? I could use a set for my pre-war Rollfast.

Not yet, but I understand blackwalls are coming.

 

[HotRodRob]

Just heard back from the John, that is selling them on ebay, that 3-4 weeks the blackwalls will be available.

 

[American Vintage Bicycle Supply]

That's super cool. I'll have to snag some!

 

[Rustinkerer]

That is very cool. Hopefully this will inspire someone to repop some other vintage tire brands.

There's a thread on the Cabe about this, folks have been pestering whomever owns the molds for Carlisle Lightning Darts to make more. Apparently, they're not interested. Cool about the Chains though, those are near impossible to find og's that are rideable! -Adam