Today at my local bikeshop they said there is a rumour that Nokian will stop making bike tyres.
Has the world become THAT cruel?
Are they focusing only on MUni tires now?
That would suck royaly if that is true. Cause my DURO tire on my muni is bald as a drag tire, and I need to buy a new tire, and I was going to pick the Gazz. So just incase this is true, I better order it soon.
I have a gazz, and am going to pick up a duro, as few mm difference would make much more difference in mud shedding than ‘other fat tire benefits’ methinks
one tiny pebble in you gazz treads click click clicks the frame horribly, not to mention it binding up in mud.
do these expensive hand made frames offer a wider ‘leg stance’? if so, i want one
No, they do all sorts. Take a look here:
http://www.nokiantyres.com/bike/
– they have everything from freeride to racing.
My custom frames can fit anything you throw on it.
And what frame are you talking about?
the stock taiwan frame…bedford/Yuni/etc…
Re: No more nokian?
There was a similar rumor a year or two ago that Nokian was going to stop making the fat 3" wide Gazzaloddi. That rumor turned out to be false. Let’s hope that this rumor turns out to be false too.
In any event, I’ve got 4 Gazz tires stored away just in case.
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Not quite false… they did stop production. John Drummond bought the whole of the US stock, I bought the whole of the European stock. They then realised that if companies were willing to put such an outlay out to keep stock then there must be a demand and they re-started production!
Roger
Thanks for clearing the fog! But it really baffles me that a big company like Nokian with its international market don’t have a better feel for customer’s demand. Or perhaps they just needed to boost their cash-flow …
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“john_childs”
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> In any event, I’ve got 4 Gazz tires stored away just in case.
how do you store those without worries of dry rot? its going to be
2010 before that 4th Gazz gets used.
there’s that whooshing sound again…
