There's a pair of unglued Performance branded tubs at the Bike Kitchen I volunteer at. I'm probably gonna buy them for the parts box, even though I have no tubular wheels. (Although there's a set on CL with Campy hubs for 80 bucks, been there for like a month...) Even if I don't buy those wheels, there will be a sewup bike in my stable at some point, and used 126mm tubular wheels are cheap.

So I'm wondering:

1) Who made them? When I worked at a Performance shop in the early Naughties, at least the Forte road tires were Panaracers. (I was the Pusher Man for the 700x26 Forte Kevlars. I tried to convince all of my roadie customers to try them. Even with our "We'll take anything back so long as you use the magic words "I'm not satisfied" return policy, I think I had one person come back and swap them for 23s, and even he loved the ride.)

2) Anybody actually use these things?

3) What's a fair price? I was thinking 20 bucks each, but I'm guessing. (At my suggestion, since I was the one who discovered them in the bottom of the bin-o'-road-tires and knew what they were, we put them in with the high-end parts, so they're cash-only and I can't use volunteer points.)