Gumwall/ Skinwall tyres

[steve-o]

Hi All

Wheres a good place to get skinwall or gumwall tyres?
Are Panaracer Smoke and Darts still avaliable anywhere?
Or someone mentioned cheap TRAX tyres in a thread...
I have seen the Charge Splashback's but not sure..are they any good?

Cheers
Steve

 

[CCMDoc]

New runs of Smoke and Darts come up every now and then but command high prices. Of course NOS also come up now and then but have the same problem.

The solution and my advice is to try to get some Panaracer Timbik II tires from First Flight Bikes. Good tire, modern construction, old skinwall mould, reasonable price. Best of all worlds.

Good luck

 

[BoyBurning]

New runs of Smoke and Darts come up every now and then but command high prices. Of course NOS also come up now and then but have the same problem.

The solution and my advice is to try to get some Panaracer Timbik II tires from First Flight Bikes. Good tire, modern construction, old skinwall mould, reasonable price. Best of all worlds.

Good luck

Well, kinda.

I'm sure the price has rissen a fair bit since these were first offered by FFB.

2 tyres, shipped to UK is 140 USD.

Add to that the import duty / VAT / handling fees, and they are the same / similar price to NOS Smokes and the like.

Doesn't quite make sense to me anymore the whole TII re-issue...


BB

 

[tigern]

You can find them here, but at the moment the Smoke's are not in stock

http://www.bike-discount.de/shop/m677/p ... turer.html

 

[brocklanders023]

I've got a set of Splashbacks and think they're very good.

 

[ety935rs]

I've got those Geax Saguaro on my Cromega DX

 

[MikeD]

There's these:

but only in 2.35in, so you'll need decent clearance.

 

[sylus]

if you wanted road retro types then schwalbe city jets in 1.95 with amberwall

if it's mtb based then 1.80 charge splashbacks are okay.

I normally just keep ebay and forum searching till i find what I want though

 

[We_are_Stevo]

There's these:

but only in 2.35in, so you'll need decent clearance.

Oooohh, they're nice...

 

[Blackstar]

There's some on MOMBAT as well:

http://mombat.org/MOMBAT/PartsForSalePages/tires.html