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PostPosted: 18:24 - 22 Dec 2024    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hetzer wrote:
When I had my first bike, 1977, tyres were made of plastic.


same here. just a hard plastic strip wrapped around the rim.
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Ariel Badger
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PostPosted: 00:11 - 24 Dec 2024    Post subject: Reply with quote
1960s British bikes on Dunlop and Avons were bad but then along came the Japanese and their tyres were bloody lethal!
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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 12:12 - 24 Dec 2024    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ariel Badger wrote:
1960s British bikes on Dunlop and Avons were bad but then along came the Japanese and their tyres were bloody lethal!


Nothing compared to some of the Eastern block stuff. When I got my first "big" bike (a Jawa 350), I kept falling off on corners. It would be a weekly occurance. This went on for a long time and I thought I was just bad at riding motorcycles. Eventually someone asked me why I had such shit tyres on my bike.

Changed the stock "Barum" tyres, which incidentally had not appreciably worn in the time I had the bike, for a set of ME22s. Absolute revelation.

My first bike -a Minsk 125- came with unbranded tyres stamped CCCP which looked like a direct copy of Ensign universals (surprisingly ok on a low powered bike being used in mucky road conditions or on dirt tracks). I was going round a corner shortly after I got it and the front blew-out. Somehow stayed with it. The tread had parted company with the sidewall and blown the tube out through the 3" rip. This revealed the hessian belts!

This may explain why I have trust issues when it comes to tyres.
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