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Originally Posted by modelmartin
Oh.....OK. It has a yellow headbadge so I keyed off of that for the tires and the bag.. As I said before, some dig it, but I have had a few "YELLOW TIRES?" from people. Since these pictures were taken I added a Pletscher rack that I lightened up and took off the spring loaded part and painted it black.


How quickly does the tread wear on those yellow tires? The reason I ask is because I discovered that on little girl's bikes, with white tires, the tread wears around 3 times as fast as the otherwise similar black tires on little boy's bikes.
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