Anyone got a spare set of 24" road tyres that will fit an islabike luath 24?
Size: 32-507
This is important, Cycleservice and I have worked out there there are 3 different sizes of 24" diameter wheels.
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32-507 road tyres needed
(10 posts)- Started 6 years ago by SRD
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Bicycle tires come in a bewildering variety of sizes.
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Posted 6 years ago # -
Mmm, tricky. ISO507 is a sort of cruiser kind of tyre size (actually the Elephant Bikes use a 507 front - generally a Marathon Plus; Royal Mail fitted a Land Cruiser).
Schwalbe's narrowest is a 35-507, but is the CX-Pro crosscountry tyre - a narrow knobbly, basically. Beyond that, you can get smooth tread road-orientated tyres like the Road Cruiser and Land Cruiser, and knobblies like the Black Jack, all of which are in the 45mm to 55mm wide range.
St John's Street Cycles often has the widest range of the less common tyre sizes, and even they are only showing the Marathon, Marathon Plus, the Conti Tour Ride (semi-knobbly) and Conti Explorer (knobbly), plus two cheapy knobblies.
Amazon is listing slick tyres in 32-507 made by CST, of whom I have never heard.
Kenda makes the Happy Medium tyre in 32-507, it's a more traditional CX tyre. Fietsshop in Belgium has them.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Annoyingly, I think I almost ordered those amazon ones, but then didn't.
It doesn't help that I need them for Saturday 7am start....
Would have figured out the problem sooner, except for the pesky snow last week.
Posted 6 years ago # -
We also had problems finding tyres to a previous 24" road bike from B'twin. It turned out to use wheelchair tyres, but they don't fit this one.
Posted 6 years ago # -
From Sheldon Brown: ""24 inch" (two slightly different sizes), "22 inch" "20 inch" and "18 inch" tubulars were formerly used for children's racing bikes, but are pretty much extinct these days."
Which strikes me as a sentence which you might find both helpful and incredibly unhelpful...
Might Islabike be able to help?
Posted 6 years ago # -
yes, i'll order some from islabike. but they won' be here by tomorrow.
Plus I can only order them by phone....how archaic is that? if you could order them online, I'd have done it last week instead of faffing around with Evans.
(hannah at cycle service thinks some 24" tyres are measured by the rim diameter and some by the inflated tyre diameter. after struggling for over an hour yesterday, this makes sense. no matter what we did, the tyre was too big for the rim.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Any wiggle room on the width?
Posted 6 years ago # -
I find IslaBikes themselves to be the cheapest and easiest for their spares.
Give them a ring, however delivery for Saturday might be a stretch!
Robert
Posted 6 years ago # -
have i mentioned my phone phobia?
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