Specialized Road Sport 27x 1 ¼ fits my 68 year old steel Dunlops beautifully and holds at 90 psi with the wire beads. Tires ride hard at 90 so I'm backing off to 55 front 60 rear.

"Nicest" Tires?
 

Are the Folding Panaracer Pasela Folding tires the "Nicest" 27 x 1 1/4 inch tires available? I can be a bit of a tires snob and want to put the original Matrix wheelset back on my '85 Trek 620. By Nicest, I mean light and supple which I would assume are not wire bead.

You may want to use an adapter to take up the space difference between Schrader and the Presta
https://www.scheels.com/p/bontrager-...yABEgKFX_D_BwE

Not sure if anyone is stocking this yet

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/new-...e#.XziwesBKjcc

I have Continental Ultra Sport and they are pretty decent

I never imagined such a thing existed lol. That and knowing now that I can use 700c tubes is really going to save on keeping too many different tubes around. :thumb:

https://shop.serfas.com/p/pacer-city-meo-27-1-25b

I have no knowledge of these, other than I saw them on another riders bike and jotted down the name/model.

The actual shop is quite cool, too!

27" wired on?
 

What's current and available in 27 x 1 ¼ and 27 x 1 ⅜? I like what Swift has at the moment, but I want wired on. One bike is a very vintage Brit club bike, and I could only find non-hooked rims to fit the hubs, 40/32. For the other (Trek 720) I have a few pairs of 36 hole but the rims that are built up for it (Campy Nuovo Tipo HF and Nisi Toro wired-on) are also not hooked.

So let's make a list of favorite currently on-the-market wired-ons!

I skimmed the list for one but I didn't look at everything.

Hello Tom, do you still feel that way about the 35 mm Paselas, 7 years later?

Ken

Swifttire is still on-line selling a few tires. Interesting little business?

My understanding is that "wired-on" means anything with a bead (coined before folding beads were invented.) Apart from a few folding tires, wouldn't everything else in this thread work for you?

Hi Ken. I can't say. I gave those tires to my spouse. She doesn't ride that bike often, and she's also not very observant about tires, so it's a big I-don't-know. No complaints, though. To the extent that I didn't like them, it might have been correctable by adjusting pressure. I still think of it as a good tire at its price point.

I have a set of the RoadSports on my old Rudge. Sorry I didn't see your message sooner, but I have mentioned it earlier in the thread I think last May or so. I've taken them on one ride. I can say, not bad, but in my non-27" world I live on Compass and tubular tires. I'm a bit spoiled, but stil I didn't hate the Road Sports. I have a set of Pasela 32 mm on a touring bike, where I had Paselas and now Challenge Strada Biancas. The Stradas are rather nicer than the Paselas. The RoadSports at full pressure (90 psi) roll freely (my rudge's hubs spin very freely!), and are still pretty good at about 65 psi. When I get newer calipers and brake cables on the bike, I can do some more riding, and I'm looking forward to when I have the bike in better shape and can ride it more.

On the plus side for the RS, the wired beads are a perfect seal to the 68 year old beads on my Rudge wheels and it holds 90 psi pressure for a long time. On the original rims the tires fit the frame perfectly. Most likely the best quality tires I'll find for the bike will be a Pasela. They weigh around 450 grams, where the RS's weigh around 100 grams more.

But I don't have a set of Paselas yet, and my bike-monkeying priorities are to finish fitting a more modern road bike for my run of fitness rides.

Thanks a bunch! On a 650b and Mrs. Road Fan's 26" wheeled bike, pressure settings on bouncy donut tires can have a significant effect. I found that too-soft may feel good, but steering response slows tremendously - you can feel the front wheel rubber twisting! Between there and "too darn harsh" is the best the tire can do for you, on your bike, and on your terrain. On my Grand Bois 584 x 42 and Compass 584 x 38 tires I've done some of this exploration. I'm coming to dislike bike innovations that turn going out for a ride into grueling engineering. My tubulars are a simpler world to live in. Pump them up by squeeze, check you have a pump and some spares in the sack, and go.

[MENTION=28632]Road Fan[/MENTION], :lol:!

That does sound annoying. I guess I'm lucky I haven't experimented that deeply.

My spouse's other bike, the one she rides more, is a Trek 7.3FX, a very nice flat bar bike. She has crappy tires on it, and when we go downhill, I coast ahead of her, and she pedals and still doesn't keep up with me. (I have fancy-ass tires.) I'd like to convince her to get fancy-ass tires, but she'll probably wait until these wear out. [MENTION=94771]ascherer[/MENTION] put Compass tires on his spouse's bike, and she loved them right away.

I didn’t wait. I was so impressed with mine I figured she deserved a set. However, mine are extra light casings and hers are standard. In the world of 27s I recently outfitted my sons bike with a set of slightly older wire bead 27x1.25 Paselas that felt fine the few times I tested the bike.

I’ve had 700x28 Paselas on one bike and recently put 700x35s on it in a different configuration using the folding model. I agree with noglider that they’re a solid tire and a good value, but they don’t perform as well as Compass/Rene Herse.

I went fancy-ass on hers, too, with Compass 559 x 1.8” (forgot what mountain pass they were made on!). All was well until she got a glass puncture on her first ride at her favorite park. So I switched them back to her previous Protite 559 x 32 (never flatted), and harmony is restored.

Harmony is the most important component!

I agree!!

new tyres
 

For some reason I have gotten all Italian... possibly its ym new girlfriend. However i digress. I have just bought a set of tyres-Challenge strada , they have a small Italian flag motif

I am recalling the Super Champ Mod58 rims having quite-defined bead hooks, capable of retaining folding tires. I know of no exceptions and this was a popular rim for use on tandems (i.e. highest pressures).

So I am curious as to what your definition of "straight-wall" is(?).

NOS tires will not be a good choice for durability, performance or reliability. They wear fast and tend to come apart.

Yep, I can see the hooks. They are not as "hooked" as current rims, more of a half-round, but the bead doesn't just slide past it.

I used to run Michelin SuperComp HD folding road tires on mine, also the Avocet folding tires. Never had one release the tire.