[CR] Any FAT SEWUPS: petitioning VELOFLEX

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Campagnolo)

From: "mandu k" <kmandu@hotmail.com>
To: bikevint@tiac.net, OROBOYZ@aol.com, Grant.McLean@SportingLife.ca, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR] Any FAT SEWUPS: petitioning VELOFLEX
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:26:13 +0800


Hi all,

I think someone on the list has mentioned that VELOFLEX has declined to make fat tires but that was sometime in the past. I spoke to Mr Colleoni not long ago and he seems interested but will only be convinced if the demand for such tires is real, i.e more than 8000 tires per year. That's quite doable, looking at the number of actual 25mm to 27mm tires sold in the whole of the US, Europe, Australia and Japan.

Either that or a pile of cash, about $20000, can be found, the tires will be made.

mandu, Singapore


>From: Michael Kone <bikevint@tiac.net>
>To: "mandu k" <kmandu@hotmail.com>, OROBOYZ@aol.com,
>Grant.McLean@SportingLife.ca, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR](CR) Any FAT SEWUPS still made?
>Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 11:22:04 -0600
>
>Bicycle Classics can supply the Challenge wide tubulars using the old Del
>Mondo casing pattern - contact http://www.bicycleclassics.com - they are not kept
>in stock I believe - I think they can special order them. Mike
>
>
>
>
>At 03:25 PM 7/27/02 +0800, mandu k wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >I've taken to cutting off knobs from high end cross tubulars from TUFO
>and
>Vittoria and the results are quite good. TUFO Prestige and Elite cross
>tires have a good and very round supple casing and make for good riding.
>They also make a D28 file tread cross tubie which is a good commuter or
>street tire.
> >
> >
> >
> >warmest (literally),
> >
> >mandu
> >
> >Singapore
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: OROBOYZ@aol.com
> >
> >>To: Grant.McLean@SportingLife.ca, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> >
> >>Subject: Re: [CR](CR) Any FAT SEWUPS still made?
> >
> >>Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 14:18:31 EDT
> >
> >>
> >
> >>Grant & all:
> >
> >>Maybe you guys missed it but those exact tires have recently gotten
>stinky
> >
> >>reviews in this very forum. Caveat Emptor! Of course, what else is
>there?
> >
> >>
> >
> >>Dale Brown
> >
> >>Greensboro, NC
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