All the SOMA tires are made by Panaracer (the bike tire subsidiary of National Tire, which is the tiremaking subsidiary of Panasonic; they mostly do car/truck tires). All the Grand Bois tires are made by Panaracer. All the Rivendell tires are made by Panaracer. All the Compass/Rene Herse tires are made by Panaracer. All the Bruce Gordon tires are made by Panaracer. And back before Kirk Pacenti sold his tire designs to Panaracer outright, all the Pacenti tires were made by Panaracer.
Panaracer's a big company (by bike tire standards) with a lot of staff and equipment to amortize. They'll make tires and brand them for anybody who'll order their minimum and pay for it, pretty much. My assumption is that any time you see a boutique clincher bike tire, regardless of brand, Panaracer probably made it. I don't know for sure that Donnelly Tires (the successor to Clement) are made by Panaracer, but it would be a lot cheaper for the owners to subcontract it out to Panaracer than to operate their own factory. Peter Adler who owns and rides Panaracer tires with full satisfaction under five different brand names in Berkeley, CA/USA On Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 12:24:58 PM UTC-7 eric...@gmail.com wrote: > Kushan -- I believe Joyce is correct here, the Shikoros are made by > Panasonic in Japan with a Soma label :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/247a2e0f-f769-49e2-bf1c-e497ea568314n%40googlegroups.com.
