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Title: Red whitewalls
Post by: gmac on December 22, 2005, 07:57 PM

Do they exist, cos I reckon they'd look the absolute nuts on my T/A build ?

Title: Re: Red whitewalls
Post by: gmac on December 23, 2005, 09:44 AM

Guess not then. Shame  :'(

Title: Re: Red whitewalls
Post by: weston on December 23, 2005, 10:48 AM

you could get them back in the day but i havent seen any for years....you can still get red ones with amber walls though

Title: Re: Red whitewalls
Post by: dan-dare on December 23, 2005, 11:41 AM

Yes they do/did, Kenda made them. :)

Title: Re: Red whitewalls
Post by: gmac on December 23, 2005, 11:47 AM

Been searching the web for a few days now, but can't find any reference to any, past or present.

Just tried a search for Kenda, but nothing doing. At least I now know they were/are out there  :santa_afro:

Title: Re: Red whitewalls
Post by: greentoad on December 23, 2005, 04:07 PM

Hi gmac  :santa_wink:

When searching don't forget to do both TYRE and TIRE for USA.

On Ginny's http://home.comcast.net/~rinisbikeshop/tires.htm the FT1 looks pretty close to Red & White, pic is a bit poor though....if not you can always paint them.

Hope this helps

greentoad

Title: Re: Red whitewalls
Post by: gmac on December 23, 2005, 04:12 PM

Cheers Toady  :santa_afro:

I did remember the U.S spelling, but still couldn't find any  :(

Those ones on Ginny's look pretty close, but it could be the pic, like you say, cos they're skinwalls. I guess they might have to do, if I can't find any whitewalls. Don't spose anyone know where you can get hold of whitewall paint ?

Title: Re: Red whitewalls
Post by: stidds on December 24, 2005, 04:03 PM

Would the paint pens you get in car shops, which are for colouring in the tyre brand name etc do the job?

Have a look at this link

http://www.speeding.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000099.cgi'reFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2espeeding%2eco%2euk%2facatalog%2fsearch%2ehtml&WD=pen&PREVQUERY=PAGE%3dSEARCH%26SS%3dpen%26TB%3dA&PN=Pressure_Guard%2ehtml%23a1248#a1248

Title: Re: Red whitewalls
Post by: gmac on December 24, 2005, 04:08 PM

Cheers Sean, but I couldn't access that link  ???

This place has a couple of types http://www.frost.co.uk/productList.asp?catID=58  but I'm not sure how good it would look on a bike tyre. Only 1 way to find out I suppose. Be nice to find some proper ones still though


Guy