Whatever became of coloured road bike tyres? Find out why we rarely see them now. What do you reckon: are they best consigned to history or overdue a comeback? cycling
but it’s rare to see anything other than black on the road, occasionally with a tan sidewall, so what’s going on?
“In a simple sense, it is essentially impossible to make a mixture lighter in colour after adding black ingredients.”“Having a coloured pigment in the rubber compound inevitably means having to reduce the amount of silica and carbon black added to the rubber compound,” says Schwalbe's Tim Ward. “Indeed, the carbon black – as raw material – gives the black colour to the compound… Even a very small amount of carbon black. Being able to get a coloured compound means a workshop with absolutely no carbon black. If not, the aesthetic quality will be very poor. At the end of the day, that generally means a dedicated workshop.”
“Another point to mention is that the tyre’s colour [probably won’t match] your bike colour 100%. Getting a maximum alignment between the two can be very challenging.”
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