What's your favourite old school tyre from the past

[Tango13]

Spanglepants said:

I'll counter that with the Avon Roadrunner!

graham22 said:

Fastchas said:

Maybe should be in 'Biker Banter' but I had to post these Pirelli Dragons!
Loved the crazy pattern.

No - there's only one tyre which make's bikers of a certain age go misty eyed:



Dunlop KR124

Avon road runners, trouser browningly awful tyres! That said I tried some of their Viper Extremes a few years back and was very impressed.

[Gary C]

Mound Dawg said:

Gary C said:

Anyone remember Kelly tyres ?

See second post on the thread...

A008 ?

Don't get it

[Loyly]

Fastchas said:

Maybe should be in 'Biker Banter' but I had to post these Pirelli Dragons!
Loved the crazy pattern.

There was an old Bridgestone Battlax with a similar pattern, maybe the BT021 or something.

[CanAm]

Avon Turbospeed.

[Chris Type R]

edo said:

My wedding ring was modelled on an Eagle F1

Did you get the matching shoes -

[PositronicRay]

I had these,


Gotta be good just for there ability to destroy any cornering ability.

[curlyks2]

Bridgestone S02's.

[generationx]

CanAm said:

Avon Turbospeed.

Where?

[edo]

Chris Type R said:

edo said:

My wedding ring was modelled on an Eagle F1

Did you get the matching shoes -

Ha!

[911gone]

f1nn said:

Slightly off topic, but can anyone remember or find any online info about the wet weather tyre that was being developed by I think Continental in around 91 or 92?

It was unusual because it had a very large pronounced central groove, maybe 15-20% of the tyres width from memory, with a lightly treaded "tyre" on each side.

The manufacturers logo name was printed in the central groove and as I say I have a feeling it may have been Continental.

I don't think it ever made production, but it was certainly a well developed concept when Autocar magazine had a feature on it.

Edited by f1nn on Saturday 14th January 16:36

Thread resurrection alert!

This triggered my memory as I remember having some Goodyear Aquatred fitted to my Golf GTI in the mid to late 90's which had the wide central groove.

Remember the NCT2 being launched and being a real step change in handling wet conditions.

Oh, and my Rapier is still running a set of G800S, a bit old now but still in good condition and just suit the car so well.

[Jaguar steve]

The original Pirelli Cinturato and the first Michelin X from the 60's and 70's. Both a huge leap forward in radial tyre technology and construction.

If you've ever driven a car with some real poke on crossply tyres in the wet you'd get why people qued up to buy them...

[TooMany2cvs]

Jaguar steve said:

The original Pirelli Cinturato and the first Michelin X from the 60's and 70's.

A chunk earlier than that - the Mich X hit the market in 1949, and Mich stopped all crossply production in 1956. By 1965, Mich were making assymetric radials.

Meanwhile, Ford were still putting crossplies on Mk2 Escorts in the mid 70s...

[g7jhp]

Toyo Proxes T1R

[E30M3ZONE]

aeropilot said:

2172cc said:

If you started driving in the early 80's like I did, low profiles were THE tyre to have. I remember buying my 1980 MK2 RS2000 when it was 3 years old and it still had the original 175/70x13 Pirelli CN36 fitted. I couldn't wait to get them off and put some 185/60 P6's on, then when they wore out(quite quickly if I remember) replaced them with Capri 2.8 205/60 Goodyear NCT's. Plenty of street cred with those fitted at the time and the obsession with premium brand performance tyres has stuck with me to this day.
Funny thing was, those CN36's that I chucked away were worth a small fortune in years to come to the concours boys although they have recently been remanufactured by Pirelli.

My mate in AVO OC put P6's on his RS2 back in '83.......and we all thought he was the dogs whotzit, as they were so expensive, and the rest of us could only afford £25 a piece Firestone S660.....which were truly awful things.
The thing was a few years later after selling my RS2, I bought a Mex, all original, and in good nick with just faded original paint, and bubbly front wings. It was a two owner car, only 65k miles and was running a decent branded set of 175/70 tyres.
What a car to drive, the balance was perfect on those 175/70 and original spec suspension and I was converted to realising that manufacturers know best when it comes to tyre sizes etc. So many people used to oversize a RS Escort, for no sensible reason....more rubber does not always make a better car.
I really regret selling that Mex so quickly - should have kept it, but wanted another RS2.
That memory meant I never fitted anything bigger that 185 section on my Sunbeam-Lotus as well, as the few I drove with 205 or bigger always felt overtyred.

I always thought the P6 was a game changer....a tyre from another planet. The first modern looking tyre until the directional stuff arrived. Like you say they just looked megga on an RS2. You'd really made it!! I still look for them in tyre walls at race circuits when between races. They are out there tho getting very rare now. How sad is that?

[Dapster]

Miglia 888 said:

Dominic H said:

Can't believe there'd been no mention of the original Pirelli Cinturato P7...



As fitted to the Countach LP5000, and available as a +2" option on the Golf GTi.

928 also:

Panther 6



De Tomaso



And who can forget this? The original 70's version with the bk slicer gear selector.

[handpaper]

Colway F2
Sticky, predictable, hard wearing and cheap.
Pity it's five years since my last set ended up looking like this :

[aeropilot]

TooMany2cvs said:

Meanwhile, Ford were still putting crossplies on Mk2 Escorts in the mid 70s...

Pretty sure they weren't?

I seem to recall that by the last year or so of Mk1 Escort production, radials were standard on even the base 1100 model?

[Escort3500]

aeropilot said:

TooMany2cvs said:

Meanwhile, Ford were still putting crossplies on Mk2 Escorts in the mid 70s...

Pretty sure they weren't?

I seem to recall that by the last year or so of Mk1 Escort production, radials were standard on even the base 1100 model?

Correct.

[V8LM]

Goodyear Eagle GS-D, specifically in 285/45 ZR18 as these are the only tyres that fit The Vantage and they stopped making them 12 years ago!

[Andy 308GTB]

This week I will be ditching these TRX wheels and tyres. I will be sad to see them go as I think they look the part. They have plenty of tread on them but they are so old, they are a liability. I am buying new imperial rims and Kumho tyres - the total outlay is probably less than 4 new TRX tyres.