Chrisz
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How come none of the big manufacturers make their coloured tyres in 25c? Lots of colour choices available in 23c but only black in the larger 25c - anyone know why?
Why no coloured 25c tyres?
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derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
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Proper tyres are black.
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Chrisz
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Cheers - the review for the Vredestein isn't exactly glowing but the Vittorias look slightly more promising!
Smokin Joe
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I must say that when I was using Vredesteins as my tyre of choice the quality did go down over the years, they tended to delaminate before treads wore down.
Eribiste
Careful with that axle Eugene
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I've got some Vittoria Zaffiro's on my bike in 25mm width. I've been giving them a workout or two, and their grip is good, inspiring confidence coming off the Malvern Hills at 75kph. Mine are a not very adventurous black colour, but Chain Reaction are showing a range of colours available, except yellow, currently out of stock.
S-Express
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Because coloured tyres are shite - and making them in bigger sizes just makes them even more shite. So 25c (or above) coloured tyres would just be too much shite for most people.
bonsaibilly
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But all those colours are in 23 mm width, which was the question.
bonsaibilly
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It's because in the period where tyre marketing went into overdrive, the received wisdom was that 23 mm was the optimum width. As a result they coloured up the 23s so that different colour tyres could be used to really set off the graphics of their wheels. And this would aid marketing bollox.
They can't just stop doing it because they'd lose money.
In time, if the current philosophy on 25 mm persists, you'll see the same multitude (it is actually quite limited) of colours on 25 mm tyres. They just haven't reached the point yet where they're the race norm.
Once that happens, 15.8% of this forum's members will start extolling the virtues of them.
BalkanExpress
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Ribble also have Veloflex Corsa (black sidewalks) and Master (gumwall) in red and blue
http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/veloflex-corsa-folding-tyre/#pid=22532
For the Best bike rather than for the commuter, and you will need the thumbs of Thor to fit them: but as they say, "no pain, no gain"
http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/veloflex-corsa-folding-tyre/#pid=22532
For the Best bike rather than for the commuter, and you will need the thumbs of Thor to fit them: but as they say, "no pain, no gain"
Eribiste
Careful with that axle Eugene
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Errm, hadn't noticed that. Never mind, the Vittorio Rubino Pro G+ are available in party frock guise at 25mm from the same retail house.
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Chrisz
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Ribble also have Veloflex Corsa (black sidewalks) and Master (gumwall) in red and blue
http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/veloflex-corsa-folding-tyre/#pid=22532
For the Best bike rather than for the commuter, and you will need the thumbs of Thor to fit them: but as they say, "no pain, no gain"
"Not to be used on carbon rims"
BalkanExpress
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"Not to be used on carbon rims"
Ahh sorry, I'm a bit old school..only carbon around my bikes is in my odour eaters.
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yep, every time I see some London twonk on coloured tyres I always feel like pulling alongside and in a hushed faux friendly tone (akin to the genuine friendly tone you would use to tell someone their flies were undone) whispering that that their particular colour is so last year.This annoys me. Not that I especially want coloured tyres (except maybe if I could get some yellow ones for the yellow bike), but it seems like on the one hand everyone is running around saying "25 is the new 23" and on the other hand all the bargains and special offers for tyres are still in 23mm width.
