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Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: Mr.7 on September 27, 2005, 02:46:57 PM

We all know that you want a set of these on your bike
(http://www.rubbermag.com/news/imgs/050128_toma.jpg)

Just think how fun it would be to keep the white tires clean!

And you complained about white wheels?

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: RVertigo on September 27, 2005, 02:48:16 PM

YELLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I gotta wonder if it does anything bad to the rubber.

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: pandy on September 27, 2005, 02:48:35 PM

No PURPLE!!?? :?

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: RVertigo on September 27, 2005, 02:50:03 PM

HA HA!!

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: Roadstergal on September 27, 2005, 02:52:58 PM

Quote from: pandyNo PURPLE!!?? :?

Buy a red and a blue and smush them together. :)

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: pandy on September 27, 2005, 02:54:47 PM

Quote from: RoadstergalBuy a red and a blue and smush them together. :)

I'm not good at chemistry and wrenching like you are. :(

:P

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: jen_ on September 27, 2005, 03:01:55 PM

I had all blue tires on my mountain bike once. They were sweet.

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: scratch on September 27, 2005, 03:22:19 PM

Tomahawk tires...hmm...when you mentioned white tires I thought about white tires on white rims...I could make the bike look like a negative.

Raw rubber when it comes from the tree is a tranlucent flesh colored liquid. The black comes from whatever they add to it or from vulcanization; I'm not sure. :dunno: I want to think it's ash. But, to add any color doesn't mess with the compound much. Seen white tires on old cars, circa 1920's, and you must have seen colored tires for BMX bikes?

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: RVertigo on September 27, 2005, 03:25:12 PM

I've seen them on BMX... But... Tires are a little more important to a moto than on anything else.

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: scratch on September 27, 2005, 03:28:35 PM

I've skimmed the reviews of them and the tester's stated that they weren't that bad. Not as sticky as Dunlop 208's though.

But, think of the red rubber burnout you could do!

A white burnout?

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: 94suzuki500 on September 27, 2005, 05:37:19 PM

ya i hear they leave colored marks when you burnout.

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: Mr.7 on September 27, 2005, 06:40:50 PM

QuoteNo PURPLE!!?? :?

Yes but they do have orange.
They would go great with you know what

(I promised I wouldn't bring it up for a while)

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: crash on September 27, 2005, 06:41:16 PM

mmm those look delicious

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: pandy on September 27, 2005, 08:38:23 PM

Quote from: Mr.7Yes but they do have orange.
They would go great with you know what
(I promised I wouldn't bring it up for a while)

:?

(And that wasn't a while...it was just a moment!)

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: Mk1inCali on September 27, 2005, 09:52:17 PM

I remember from back in my hardcore mtn bike days that the lack of the agent that turns the tire black, called carbon black, does affect the low temp stickiness of the tires. Ever locked up the pedal brake on a pink girl's bike with white tires vs same size boy's bike with blue frame and black tires?

That's the difference.

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: aqxea2500 on September 27, 2005, 11:11:36 PM

They should make a see through tire!!!

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: pantablo on September 27, 2005, 11:55:11 PM

Quote from: scratchNot as sticky as Dunlop 208's though.

thats not saying much though...

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: JamesG on September 28, 2005, 03:36:15 AM

i think they would get fugly looking after a few hundred miles from road gunk. They are purely for the pozer set...
:roll:
There is a reason they started making tires black. As I recall, the first pumatic tires were either natural rubber or white.

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: Maduro Mistress on September 28, 2005, 06:03:27 AM

but they're so cute! ;)

Title: Have any color tire as long as it's not black
Post by: Dr. Love on September 28, 2005, 10:45:04 AM

But do they smoke like these?

(http://www.phas.ubc.ca/~szumeng/RED_TIRE.jpg)

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