Vintage 20 inch Schwinn S-2 Sliks and 16 inch Superior Krate and Sting Ray tires info

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I have a few westwind tires and a Stingray Slik , I'm looking for info on how to read manufacture date. Is it as simple as month and year?

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Have you posted pics of your Cycle truck with WW I would like to see that. I love WW tires.

No, sorry no photos from this old guy, that ability is above my pay grade.

The Sting Ray WW tire works perfectly on the front of the Cycle Truck with a WW Cruiser rear tire, they have matching tire treads. It is my opinion that the Carlisle produced Schwinn tires and tubes were very marginal in quality. As a Schwinn Sales Rep I wrote way too many replacement credits to dealerships that made warranty replacements. Schwinn used Carlisle as a rubber vendor only because they were the last tire company that still made bicycle tires in the U.S.A., they had no choice. I believe the closing of the Chicago Schwinn factory, was the end of Carlisle bicycle production. They just made more rolled roofing materials and expanded foam sheets. The bicycle rubber production was not important to their bottom line.

I'm OK with running marginal tires on my "rider" Cycle Truck because it gets ridden only at slow "old guy" speeds. My other Cycle Truck is a Whizzer Power Cycle, and it will have high quality (not original) tires for safety at the higher "motor driven" speeds.

John