Help finding Telleborg tires
 

I am restoring a 1963 Crescent womans/girls bike and am looking to replace the original Telleborg T Nabb tires with the same. Any ideas where I can look?

I think that you are looking for "Trellborg" tires? Trellborg is a Swedish manufacturer of all kinds of rubber and polymer products:

Your Industry - Trelleborg AB

From Trellborg's website "Most bicycle-tire production is also phased out"

It highly unlikely that you will find those exact tires. Maybe somewhere in Scandinavia but they'd probably be at least 30-40 years old and rubber deteriorates over that amount of time.

If you post the size marked on the tires you can probably find a modern conversion. Sweden used their own tire and rim specifications.

verktyg :50:

Chas.

BTW, Google is your friend... I found Trellborg on my first search for Tellborg! ;)

I'd probably just go with whatever modern Schwalbe cruiser-style tire fits your rim and looks good to your eye. That's basically what I see here in southern Sweden, not too far from Trelleborg, where cycling for transportation on old bikes is very common.

Of course, I'd trust a guy named Verktyg in matters relating to Swedish bikes before I'd trust this American bloke...

I have some new-old-stock Trelleborg 27 x 1 1/4 tires but I see no model listed and I don't know what size the ones you're looking for are. The other sidewall markings are "to fit BS rim K2", "2896-1", "inflate to 50 to 60 lbs", and of course "made in sweden". Don't know how close that is to what you're looking for, but they'll be around if you want them.

And since I can't let a ̶g̶o̶o̶d silly joke go unused, isn't Trelleborg's slogan "rolling resistance is futile"?

The tires I have are a light blue and I was hoping to keep the bike as original as possible. I did see that Trellborg does make dirt bike tires, I was hoping to find some NOS even though the rubber probably is shot, for the aesthetic effect. As you can see from the photo, it is a cool bike!

I like the joke! I should have listed the size, they are a 26" tire. Rats.

I'll check them out. Thanks.

Tack så mycket...

Here's a chart that shows some international tire size standards. Scroll down to 26" Svenska...

http://bikecult.com/works/wheelsizes.html

verktyg :50:

Chas.

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Fitted to a Monark ~1950.

I had no idea Trelleborg ever made tires, I know them from o-rings

Trelleborg AB

Try having a blowout in Sweden in '74. That's what you'll find.