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Retro 24" Tuffs. Cool, or just plain daft?

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the_wheelie_king:
Evening chaps. One of the guys on vintage will soon be selling retro 24" T-spoke Skyways in both colour and graphite versions, and I'm toying with the idea of buying a pair of the latter from him for my ongoing XL24 project. It's an odds-on certainty that they'll look supercool, but I don't think I've ever read anything complimentary about cruiser-sized tuffs. Lots of flexing problems and weight seem to be the main drawbacks, and I seem to recall that you don't get that nice a bite when you hit the brakes, even if you use tuff pads. Is this right?

So my question is this: is it worth the $360ish (with postage to the UK) outlay when I have a perfectly good set of ukai's built and ready to go? I sense this has disappointment written all over it, especially when you're used to quality standard wheels...

What to do? :-\

brass monkey!:
the new T-Spoke Graphites should be the nutz, if they're as good as coloredtuffs are saying they are, stick some kool caps on em and they'd look niiiiice !
just my 2 penneth !  ;)

YGM re: UKAI's BTW  :)

ron burgundy:
Never had any issues with my set, brakes worked great and they are really smooth...  of course spoked wheels are going to be more stiff, but it's not that noticeable.





 :daumenhoch:

Rooonga:
If I keep my 24" Torker I'm deffo having a set for it.

I sent Steve Colored Tuffs) ab enail about a yar ago now, when he 1st said about them.

The cool factor will easily outweigh the flex etc IMHO

Bob_Acid:
BOING

Zeberdee always uses Skyway 24"    :daumenhoch:




I think to ride Skyways you need to practice, going from spokes to mags is hard work though.

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