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bmw156
05-02-10, 07:03 PM
ok saw this on retro rides, and thought it might interest people.

http://www.tiptop-tyres.co.uk/who_makes_which_tyre.html

discuss.

im running kuhmo atm and never had a problem grip wise.
wwmnw
05-02-10, 07:21 PM
TOYO Japan specialist performance and track manufacturer

That will do me.
Stuart
05-02-10, 07:22 PM
Chekoslovakia

lmfao
Mazz
05-02-10, 07:23 PM
I had some kuhmo's on the Cav and they were quite good tbh!
Stuart
05-02-10, 07:25 PM
ive got kumhos on the vx atm, love them. They last well, grip like funk and still have great wet performance.

might see what marshalls have to offer lol
Mazz
05-02-10, 07:27 PM
Nokian Tyres are made by NOKIA (the mobile phone company!) in Netherlands

wtf do they know about tyres!
MK999
05-02-10, 07:54 PM
Nokian Tyres are made by NOKIA (the mobile phone company!) in Netherlands

wtf do they know about tyres!

I love this mentality, xx do great phones so I'll try them for a TV, what do nokia know about tyres etc... the designers they employ probably know a whole lot, they don't exactly have them designing a phone one day then grab a couple of them and say hey we kinda fancy the tyre business lol
Jack
05-02-10, 08:24 PM
List misses the world's biggest tyre manufacturer!

I was always under the impression the budget lines don't carry the manufacturer main name (e.g. Nexen aren't branded Michelin) because the manufacturer doesn't want people associating them with sh!t tyres. Same reason IBM distance themselves as far as possible from Lexmark!
Novasport
05-02-10, 08:31 PM
List misses the world's biggest tyre manufacturer!

Michelin? French owned arent they?
mowgli
05-02-10, 08:31 PM
List misses the world's biggest tyre manufacturer!

I was always under the impression the budget lines don't carry the manufacturer main name (e.g. Nexen aren't branded Michelin) because the manufacturer doesn't want people associating them with sh!t tyres. Same reason IBM distance themselves as far as possible from Lexmark!


http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Yql9qMF5kUZOLM:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Lego_Wheel.jpg (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Lego_Wheel.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lego_Wheel.jpg&usg=__eqHXhr52zGJrkILqOQ9x2TLNrFY=&h=753&w=816&sz=151&hl=en&start=2&itbs=1&tbnid=Yql9qMF5kUZOLM:&tbnh=133&tbnw=144&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlego%2Bwheel%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den)

funny how the chinese manufacturers 'make for the worlds leading brands'

at least they aren't making dubious knockoffs then.....cough cough....runs off to check my pc isn't being hacked into by red army spies
Stuart
05-02-10, 09:01 PM
Nokia make some great bike tyres.. their road ones arent that good though lol.


Lots of these '****' tyres which are a cover brand for the big boys are simply using 12-36month of tyre technology/compounds so to be fair while they arent the 'best' they arent necessarily the 'worst'
brucer
05-02-10, 09:09 PM
they havnt got debica or mohawk.:confused:
Rysee
05-02-10, 11:24 PM
No Uniroyal?
Novasport
05-02-10, 11:24 PM
No Nankang either, not that I'm particularly bothered. Was Uniroyal on there?
Novasport
05-02-10, 11:25 PM
Great minds an all that! lol