What are my options for 24x2.125 tires? Looking mainly for blackwalls, and mainly for a tread pattern that would not look too out of place on an early 50s (or prewar for that matter) bike.
As near as I can tell, modern tires in this size consist mainly of Schwinn brick-tread clones, and Goodyear diamond-tread clones. The ads on Ebay all list a bunch of colors, but if you click on the drop down boxes, almost everything is out of stock. All black or even whitewall are non-starters in any sort of old fashioned tread pattern. Is this a covid thing or is it usually this hard to get 24 inch tires?
Is anything else made with an older-looking tread? I probably have room for something that is a little oversize.
I see the "diamond tread" tires are made by both Cheng Shin and Duro. I have noticed in the past that some of these diamond tread tires are really heavy, like for an industrial trike, while others are more like bike tires. Is this a Cheng Shin vs Duro difference or something else? How do you tell what you are getting?
As near as I can tell, modern tires in this size consist mainly of Schwinn brick-tread clones, and Goodyear diamond-tread clones. The ads on Ebay all list a bunch of colors, but if you click on the drop down boxes, almost everything is out of stock. All black or even whitewall are non-starters in any sort of old fashioned tread pattern. Is this a covid thing or is it usually this hard to get 24 inch tires?
Is anything else made with an older-looking tread? I probably have room for something that is a little oversize.
I see the "diamond tread" tires are made by both Cheng Shin and Duro. I have noticed in the past that some of these diamond tread tires are really heavy, like for an industrial trike, while others are more like bike tires. Is this a Cheng Shin vs Duro difference or something else? How do you tell what you are getting?
