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This might be an update, I'm not sure how to read the message I was sent correctly, anyway.....

I was talking with the factory and they mentioned that 'cast' into the tire sidewall it will say '26x2.10' as we did actually design the tire to be a little wider. I said please can you change that casting to '26x1.95' to be more inline with the original tire, and they said that it wasn't possible because the machining of the mold is underway!

Now, I'm reading that as both good and bad news, bad news because there was a miscommunication and now the tires will say 2.10 cast into it, good news because there's movement on our mold production.

So I want to apologize in advance for that.

As for the printing on the side, we are going with a plain black 'sausage' shaped print, feel free to pull out your orange paint and go to town on it, more on this in the coming weeks.

I chatted with the factory towards the end of last week, it would appear that they are open and working away on the mold!

I'm excited to see what our mold looks like, and even more excited to see the sample tire they send through. Hopefully they can get the white and tan as close to original as possible, I've sent them multiple images, so fingers crossed!

Mold production is still promised by the end of this month so that's great news. I would love to promise an end date to this project, but that would be too premature of me at this point, so hang in there.

Thank you to everyone that reached out to us to 'up' their orders to two, three and even more pairs, its super appreciated.

Morning all! 

Not much to report on this week as the factory is closed, but I've been bugging my contact regardless, however nothing to show for it.

But we could use some some help!

If anyone has any pictures of these classic tires in white, or old photographs of their bikes with these awesome white tires, and you don't mind us using them, please send them our way!

We're tired of looking at the same 10 images on google and need some new content!

Email us at aidan@retrowhitetires.com

Hey folks,

I've been talking daily to the factory to try and push for images of the physical mold production etc, but I guess that kind of stuff is all kept under wraps, but, they did say; "Now only the mold is just a whole piece of iron", so maybe that's progress? (I would of imagined it being aluminum, but I have no idea).

Now my contact is saying "Before March 1st" (for the mold production) so fingers crossed. As anything exciting is released to me, I will of course keep you in the loop.

Yesterday I was talking to the tire factory and they said that the mold should be finished by March 1st, that's a few months ahead of schedule, which is awesome news.

It would probably be sooner but they have spring breaks and Chinese new year, so factories shut down a while over the next few months.

My contact also promised to head down to the factory to take photos and video of the mold being produced, hopefully nothing got lost in translation there, so fingers crossed.

As always, thank you for your support on this project, without your support, this project would not be happening.

Aidan and crew

A truly iconic tire of the nineties, We are starting production of a very accurate homage to this tire. 

But why this tire?  Because I wanted a couple of sets for some vintage bikes that I have, and they demand a premium when they occasionally do come up for sale, so why not make an homage tire that is perfect for wall hangers and occasional rides, the perfect retro bike tire.

We are producing a 26" White with tan walled tire, wire bead - no frills or logos.

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