Wow! those are some tires!
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So I decided the flaming surly was a bit nice to be my commuter or beater bike and picked up an old Trek 800 from craigslist. It was a nice purple with an orange border around the trek lettering. A little beat up, hence the name Scar, but good bones. Scar got new tires from Sweetskinz which are reflective at night, a new seatpost (the original trek steel one weighed a ton), a rack (needs to be adjusted a little still once I get it off the trainer, trainer's interfering with putting the back of it on right), and a bottle cage. I changed the handlebars to some old mountain biking ones that are more touring shaped for more handlebar positions, and switched the rear cassette to 8 speed and changed the shifters to some old deore LX ones I had (the cabling still needs to be finished). I probably shoulda cleaned up the clutter around him.
So here Scar is in all his "Glory" All I can say is noone will ever steal Scar, they'd be too embarassed to ride him.
Here's some pics at night with the flash so you can see how reflective the tires are:
Wow! those are some tires!
From the photos at least, I don't find those tires aesthetically appealing but they sure do reflect!
Did you have those bars laying around?
2008 Trek FX 7.2/Terry Cite X
2009 Jamis Aurora/Brooks B-68
2010 Trek FX 7.6 WSD/stock bontrager
Wow, too bad they don't do something reflective like that for road tires. That is pretty nifty!
I like Scar. He has character.
Kirsten
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zoomylicious
'11 Cannondale SuperSix 4 Rival
'12 Salsa Mukluk 3
'14 Seven Mudhoney S Ti/disc/Di2
Wild tires! Reflecting is a good thing - it looks like Scar is perfect for what you have intended!
I am still looking for blue 26'inch tires for The Wanderer...
I believe you are just jealous that you can't rock the Scorched tires.
R had a few of those - he used to use those mountain biking, but couldn't use them after he switched to grip shifters. I stuck one set on Scar, one set on Julie's bike, and his old bridgestone still has some.
Last edited by Cataboo; 07-15-2010 at 06:33 AM.
YOu can get the sweetskinz in 700x37c. But that's a bit fat for road
http://www.amazon.com/Sweetskinz-Tre...204211&sr=8-12
They do have a blue reflective one:
http://www.amazon.com/Sweetskinz-Sem...9204211&sr=8-2
Kirsten
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zoomylicious
'11 Cannondale SuperSix 4 Rival
'12 Salsa Mukluk 3
'14 Seven Mudhoney S Ti/disc/Di2
how cool are these tires? I love them!
so first they made tiny skinny tires in colors, now they're doing MTB tires in colors.
Someday maybe they'll get to those of us on slightly fatter road bike tires....
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