Folding Tyres

Dirk1978

What is the difference between normal and folding tyres?

Many thanks

daveydave43

normal tyres have a steel bead which means that the tyre cannot be folded back upon itself

folding tyres have a kevlar bead, so that they can be folded, and this also make them a bit lighter.

3 RAV

No idea . . . but a few seconds on Google came up with this . . .

http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=3520