Originally Posted by
desconhecido
Those tires are Schwalbe Marathon Plus. They're supposed to be about the closest thing to bullet proof there is though some people say they feel like they're lead-lined. Feel fine to me, though, and it's a Sports, not an English racer.
I was looking at something yesterday and a reference to Specialized TriSport tires came up. They offer that tire in 26 1 3/8 for $15 each. I've never seen one and don't know if they have reflective sidewall. The Schwalbes do.
If you travel back to Post
#4057 on about Page 163 of this thread you'll see a Gold/Chrome Hercules that I picked up for $50 - with new
Specialized TriSports on it - when the bike flipper couldn't sell it for a couple of months. I have no doubt at all that he would have gotten $150 for the bike in that condition had it been a Raleigh...
Oh, and the blue Raleigh-built Western Auto - 1964 AW Hub - set me back a cool $5. I was going to part it out but have decided to make a kind of quasi path racer out of it....