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Originally Posted by dmar836  Quite an ambitious project. Good luck!
"NOSKID" tires were legit for the time. "Authentic" tires were not wire beaded so were in danger of stretching and rolling off. I doubt you want to be that authentic. |
The point of this is to have tires that look as authentic as possible, but that will fit on modern 26" 559 ISO MTB wheels.
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Is this for 26" tires only? Firestone and Coker make good period MC tires - some in 26". Felt and a few other companies are starting to release some much better bicycle tire designs IMO. The actual 3" MC tires of the like are between $158 and $225 or so.
They are out there so I was just wondering about your niche and price point.
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Nobody makes authentic looking tires that will fit on MTB wheels. Except for the red BF Goodrich specified as a bicycle tire, the tires that Coker sells are vintage-type clinchers in fractional sizes. The bead diameter is wrong for MTB rims, and they won't fit on any modern bicycle wheels at all because the tire bead is different.
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Actually, the diagram below is not exactly correct.... It was only the motorcycles that used the vintage clincher rims and tires--the bicycles at that time were all using tubular tires on wooden rims....)
Some of the $15 Cheng Shin tires are
nearly-perfect copies of early tires (#1 or #2 below) but the tire styles date back to 1930 or so (the ad below is from 1939). They miss the 1900-1920 board-track era.
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