Ahh tires. It seems like I'm swapping out tires on my vehicles, bikes and friends bikes every other week. Thanks for the link to your secret source of tires Spokes! That looks like a big warehouse of vintage tire goodness for sure. And I just realized Mr. 65ca95 specified
WHITE WALL tires which none of this info below is applicable. Unfortunately you're going to have to pay dearly for any of those. People have painted on white stripes with great results. So if you have the time you can go that route and save an easy $100 doing that.
This is who I'm going to call the next time I need tires for my old bikes. I posted about them a little while back
- click here. The guys at
www.Heidenauusa.com know vintage tires well. I talked to them at the San Jose Vintage Bike show and they had an answer for everything I asked which is not an easy task. The reps business I talked to was
Moto Amore and his address is 2983 Lafayette St. Santa Clara, CA 95054. Phone is:1-408-295-3004. They have a cute website here
http://www.moto-amore.com.
Any business that still has it's doors open and is offering over the top service or help is one I'll shop at.
If you want cheap as possible tires I recommend calling up JC Whitney or combing over their website
http://www.jcwhitney.com. I had some bookmarked a while back but never pulled the trigger so I don't know if they are still there. I would probably call them and make their staff check their inventory for anything that would work.
02-13-2011, 05:35 PM
