Re: [CR]CR]re: gluing tires & Tufo

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From: <hersefan@comcast.net>
To: "The Maaslands" <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>, "CR" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]CR]re: gluing tires & Tufo
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:09:43 +0000


If I remember, a good friend "in the day" bought a bunch of Barum's and was extremely pleased - he was used to vittoria cx and cg's and he loved them. Not much later, though, they seemed very hard to get. And in the early 90's I aquired them for sale when I owned Bicycle Classics Inc. The ones I got were horrible - not straight, scary base tapes - sold them out with some scary disclaimers and advice that they might be best used as a spare.

My guess is that at one point some emerged that were really great - but the good ones were available for just a short while and as Steven said they were pretty bad otherwise.

Mike Kone in Boulder CO


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From: The Maaslands

> John wrote:

\r?\n>

\r?\n> "Even back in the day Czech-made Barum tubulars were very highly

\r?\n> regarded. Whatever happened to Barum? Is there any connection with Tufo,

\r?\n> I wonder?"

\r?\n>

\r?\n> That is a new one to me. The only reason that anybody in my neighborhood

\r?\n> used Barums was because they were a good value for the money, but nobody

\r?\n> ever said they were "good". They were often half the price of any other

\r?\n> tubular that could be purchased, so value for money was actually great,

\r?\n> especially as a training tubular. Another way to save money with a

\r?\n> Barum, was with glue. The tires were in fact so tight, when you were

\r?\n> able to get the tires on the rim, you could almost do without glue.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Steven Maasland

\r?\n> Moorestown, NJ