Coloured tyres or just good old black ones

[simon the viking]

I think if you leave the tyres and tape black....... I think you are less like to make speed cameras flash on fast descents................. Stealth mode

 

[JoeyB]

I think if you leave the tyres and tape black....... I think you are less like to make speed cameras flash on fast descents................. Stealth mode

Why wouldn't you want to make camera's flash? If I could, I certainly would lol

 

[raleighnut]

There is a Warning 30 sign near my house that I can sometimes get to light up, if the winds in the right direction

 

[Steady]

Would if I could.

Unfortunately 650c wheels are limited to black, I'll be forever telling myself coloured tyres don't matter.

 

[FeistySquirrel]

I use to have bright red tyres on my old college commuter... They made me super fast

 

[Cuchilo]

Depends on the rims .

 

[TheDoctor]

Purple tyres on the purple fixed...

 

[cyberknight]

Some folk have way to much spare time and not enough other stuff going on if they are worried about this sort of stuff

 

[winjim]

Can you get tyres in celeste?

ETA: Just googled it and yes you can! Vittorias and Michelins.

 

[Cycling Dan]

I would buy tyres to match my colour scheme. That being said I do go for the better tyre regardless of colour but if there is not much difference I will pick the colour. A good thing about black is it goes with nearly everything

 

[derrick]

Black.

 

[LarryDuff]

I have a nice pair of vittoria rubonos in lime green.
lovely.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I have these http://www.cyclingbargains.com/product_info.php/vittoria-rubino-tyre-orange-p-1227 on a silver bike,i also added bright orange bar tape. I'm thinking about buying an orange saddle but i might just get an orange water bottle(cheaper)instead to finish the look off!

 

[Kestevan]

It may be worth pointing out that some of the coloured tyres may not have quite the same levels of grip as their black counterparts. I remember a review of the Continental 4000GPs which praised the wet weather grip from the "black chillie" rubber compound, but warned that the coloured version didn't get these benefits.

Personally I've previously run Michelin Pros in red and never has a problem.....

 

[jefmcg]

Can you get tyres in celeste?

ETA: Just googled it and yes you can! Vittorias and Michelins.

For some reason I googled this, and there seems to be a fairly hefty bianchi tax. Wiggle puts rubino pros at £30, RRP. bianchibikes.co.uk says celeste pros are £60 RRP!

(bought the wired rubinos because they had red stripes. Got them again because they are great tyres - and they still have red stripes)