White tires

Joeblack

Whats the general standpoint on white wall tires

Silly Old Hector

Gonna cruise the miracle mile ? *

*Billy Joel lyrics

Joeblack

Silly Old Hector wrote:

Gonna cruise the miracle mile ? *

*Billy Joel lyrics

Glad you pointed out the reference otherwise I'd have no clue what your talking about :roll:

andy 3654

Well as mine has them i'm in favour.

rolf_f

Oh grey walls as they are more accurately described after the first wet trip on them!

andy 3654

Yeah sounds about right

Joeblack

Rolf F wrote:

Oh grey walls as they are more accurately described after the first wet trip on them!

Are you suggesting there slippery

rpd_steve

just about as easy to keep clean as white bar tape!

Grill

They match my cockpit, saddle, and logos. Easy enough to clean if you can be bothered. When they are my bike looks awesome.

Paul 8v

Cool but as with anything white, you'll have to love cleaning your bike if you want it to stay like that!

Hoopdriver

Rolf F wrote:

Oh grey walls as they are more accurately described after the first wet trip on them!

Not so. I have cream coloured Panaracer Paselas and they look just fine after a couple hundred miles.

olza23

White tires...



Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it!! 8)

careful

I had some white Vredestein Fortezzas on my Bianchi from new. Not to hardto clean (scrub with sopy water). My first trip on freshly spread tarmac put me off them forever though!!

cookeeemonster

careful wrote:

I had some white Vredestein Fortezzas on my Bianchi from new. Not to hardto clean (scrub with sopy water). My first trip on freshly spread tarmac put me off them forever though!!

I got these (white on black whitewall things, not all white) on my bianchi too!!

then I put crud roadracer mudguards on and realised it would've looked better with all black ones...then I broke a bolt holding the mudguards on and the mudguards rubbed on the white bit and now they look sh*t, and grey cos of the dirt.

so wouldn't get them again (in white anyway, quite like the tyre itself)

rolf_f

Hoopdriver wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Oh grey walls as they are more accurately described after the first wet trip on them!

Not so. I have cream coloured Panaracer Paselas and they look just fine after a couple hundred miles.

Sorry, but in what way is cream white? (and I presume you mean tan rather than cream - that's if you're talking about gumwall Paselas like mine).
That's worth a small facepalm - only about 400 pixels wide but a facepalm all the same.

Joeblack

Well I'm gonna get some, any suggestions which ones to go for?

Hoopdriver

Rolf F wrote:

Hoopdriver wrote:

Rolf F wrote:

Oh grey walls as they are more accurately described after the first wet trip on them!

Not so. I have cream coloured Panaracer Paselas and they look just fine after a couple hundred miles.

Sorry, but in what way is cream white? (and I presume you mean tan rather than cream - that's if you're talking about gumwall Paselas like mine).
That's worth a small facepalm - only about 400 pixels wide but a facepalm all the same.

Don't be sorry - speak right up.

No I do not mean tan. Tan is tan. Gumwall is gumwall. I mean cream - although Panaracer refers to the colour as 'white'. These tyres are entirely white, or cream as I would call it, even at the risk of offending you.

And they look very nice on my retro classic tourer... And still look nice even after a couple hundred miles.

Hoopdriver

Joeblack wrote:

Well I'm gonna get some, any suggestions which ones to go for?

Your thread says white tyres - if by that you mean genuinely white tyres, as opposed to merely whitewall tyres, I would recommend Panaracer Paselas. They wear well, ride well and have good puncture resistance. More a touring or commuting tyre than a racing or high performance one. The white ones come in 23 or 28mm widths.

Joeblack

Hoopdriver wrote:

Joeblack wrote:

Well I'm gonna get some, any suggestions which ones to go for?

Your thread says white tyres - if by that you mean genuinely white tyres, as opposed to merely whitewall tyres, I would recommend Panaracer Paselas. They wear well, ride well and have good puncture resistance. More a touring or commuting tyre than a racing or high performance one. The white ones come in 23 or 28mm widths.

No sorry I mean whitewall's and I need a set suitable for racing


Thanks

Grill

Michelin Pro 4 Service Course. They look good, even after almost 1000 miles without a decent clean!

rolf_f

Hoopdriver wrote:

No I do not mean tan. Tan is tan. Gumwall is gumwall. I mean cream - although Panaracer refers to the colour as 'white'. These tyres are entirely white, or cream as I would call it, even at the risk of offending you.

And they look very nice on my retro classic tourer... And still look nice even after a couple hundred miles.

Ahh right. Now I didn't know you could get all white Paselas but even cream isn't as bad as white for going off colour.

As it happens, I use gumwalls on my old tourer which gets the rough end of most of my winter commuting. At times, it's barely apparent that the sidewalls are a different colour from the rest of the tyre and it can take only a few miles to get like this. They do clean up to a presentable appearance but in no way to the same colour when they were new. I keep mulling over tanwalls for my Look which is a weekend, dry weather bike so I'm sure they'd be OK but once you start using light coloured tyres in the rain they soon discolour. Keep your tourer away from the wet!

Hoopdriver

Rolf F wrote:

Hoopdriver wrote:

No I do not mean tan. Tan is tan. Gumwall is gumwall. I mean cream - although Panaracer refers to the colour as 'white'. These tyres are entirely white, or cream as I would call it, even at the risk of offending you.

And they look very nice on my retro classic tourer... And still look nice even after a couple hundred miles.

Ahh right. Now I didn't know you could get all white Paselas but even cream isn't as bad as white for going off colour.

As it happens, I use gumwalls on my old tourer which gets the rough end of most of my winter commuting. At times, it's barely apparent that the sidewalls are a different colour from the rest of the tyre and it can take only a few miles to get like this. They do clean up to a presentable appearance but in no way to the same colour when they were new. I keep mulling over tanwalls for my Look which is a weekend, dry weather bike so I'm sure they'd be OK but once you start using light coloured tyres in the rain they soon discolour. Keep your tourer away from the wet!

Ihave to say I have been surprised at how well the Paselas have stayed white. I bought them, frankly, to compliment the custom paint job on the bike (unusual colours) and they did that very well. I figuredthey would look good long enough for me to get some classy photographs (I am a photographer) and that would be that. Instead they've surprised me. I'd actually buy them again, and will when these wear out.

rolf_f

Hoopdriver wrote:

Ihave to say I have been surprised at how well the Paselas have stayed white. I bought them, frankly, to compliment the custom paint job on the bike (unusual colours) and they did that very well. I figuredthey would look good long enough for me to get some classy photographs (I am a photographer) and that would be that. Instead they've surprised me. I'd actually buy them again, and will when these wear out.

It may work out that they survive normal rainy weather - it's when you get all the sludgy grey runoff that kills them. The Dawes uses Schwalbe Delta Cruisers that have pretty pale sides which are never the same again after a few days of winter rain.
One thing about the Paselas I found is that if you go anywhere muddy, the textured pattern on the tyres sucks up the mud so even on the black part of the tyre it stands out. I'd prefer the tyres if they were a bit smoother.