Help With Another Badgeless Toc Bike?

[manuel rivera]

Congratulations! Beautiful job.

 

[Kombicol]

Beautiful build
What model Duro tires are they?
They sure look good from the side.
Hard to find a 700C tire with period tread pattern

 

[Brian R.]

Thanks. The tires are not 700C. It's a girl's bike with 26 x 1 3/8" tires. The pic in post #1 shows a black tire on the rear rim. It was a 26" modern tire on a tubular type rim so obviously a non-starter for riding. But it gave me the idea of buying a pair of white 26" tires to let sit on the rim like that for display purposes. It took a while to find a white pair online but I found these Duros - no words on the sidewall other than "Duro - Nylon". They came from Florida and with the shipping and taxes and duty and exchange rate, they cost me an arm and a leg.

Then this project really took off when I was poking around on the Cerchio Ghisallo website and discovered that they can make wood clincher rims for 26 x 1 3/8" tires in whatever spoke count I needed (They cost me my other arm and leg).

When I need white/cream 700C tires for my 28" wood rim bikes, I order Electra Amsterdam 700 x 40C 622 cream tires. They fit right on the clincher wood rims used by CCM a hundred years ago.