Shopping today for the Baconator. It came to me with some tires labeled Serfas Pacer Meo Series. These tires are positively coated in make-no-mistake markings about size and pressure molded into the sidewall, including the original brand Chao Yang and a lot of Chinese characters that I guess translate into the English stuff. Two mystery markings are H-424 which might be a tread pattern and 70kg which must be a load limit. I measured them out at only 27mm even though they are marked 27 x 1-1/4 and also 32-630. FWIW the tire tread is identical to the Kenda Klassics Street K135. They have longitudinal cracking in the sidewall rubber in the tan by the black boundary. Time to shop, right?

I looked at Universal, BTD, and Performance. (and Swift.) It seems like the Panaracer made tires (including Swift) and the Continentals are still the best things going.

Connie has Gator Skins, Gator Hardshells, Ride Tour commuter tire, and Super Sport Plus in several sizes. The Hardshells are the only folders - cruel irony! The Ultra Sport is sometimes folding but not in the 27 size. I can find it in stock some places.

There's a folding Pasela Pro-Tite x3 sizes, and the Swift. Paselas and Pasela pro-tites in wire bead x3 sizes

I was not impressed with the prior model Zaffiro that I got a few years ago and the current one looks no better. It's only like the premium tire in name. twenty seven TPI

There is a Michelin branded tire - viva la France! - but it looks Walmart quality

Tom didn't mention it when he linked them above but the latest version of the Marathon is an eco-fair-trade tire. Everything about it is supposed to be sustainable or recycled. The former version is still listed and they have a budget tire called Road Sport.

Lots of cut and paste errors in tire specifications on the vendor websites