My wife rides the 35 mm version and really likes them. They look best on a bike with a single color paint job. She always got lots of good comments about them. Too bad we can't get them anymore. Michael
On Oct 14, 5:54 pm, bfd <bfd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Oct 14, 9:49 am, bfd <bfd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > On Oct 14, 7:34 am, Larry Powers <lapower...@hotmail.com> wrote:> They > > always seemed to me to be to bikes what spinners are to cars. I never saw > > how they fit in with the Rivendell philosophy of classic bikes. > > > You must have missed the RR that explained Grant's reasoning for > > selling these tires. Apparently, he came out with and patented the > > speedblend design. His original goal was to sell the design to a large > > tire companies for use on car tires. If that was the case, he could > > have, would have, maybe even should have made his millions. :) > > > So, the speedblend tire was developed in an effort to get out the > > design in the hope that a car tire mfr might see it and want to > > license the patent. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have ever > > caught on. Too bad, Grant could have used the money to further Riv and > > the products he wants to developed. Good Luck! > > Btw, the closest car tire to the speedblends were the BF Goodrich > Scorchers: > > http://wayneswheels.net/BFGoodrich.html > > Unfortunately, the Scorcher tire never caught on and was quickly > discontinued by the company. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
