Guys - I've seen the painted-on redlines on a Signal Red TR250. They looked OK
from afar, but up close it looked cheap. It looked like it was applied with a
big, round sponge-stamp or something. It was probably showing age, too.
I have 2 Cokers en route to my house and hope to get them mounted on the front
of my car this weekend. I like the fact that they are almost 1/2 the price of
Michelin X's and they are tubeless. I just hope they look and drive well, too.
Cheers,
Ryan
6/71 Sapphire
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:18:23 -0700
>From: Peter Zaborski <peterz@merak.com>
>Subject: RE: Coker tires
>
>> From: David Friedlander [mailto:forzion@maine.rr.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:04 PM
>>
>> From what I've been told by a number of folks at a variety of
>> tire shops here, there are people out there who can put a
>> redline right onto ANY tire you buy. They swear the redlines
>> they apply are water/chemical resistant and look like factory
>> issue.
>
>One problem I see with this claim is that a tire which was made to have a
>"line" on it will have the raised letters (and other characters, icons,
>logos, whatever) positioned so that the line does not interfere with them.
>On a tire with no line (which I assume is what these line adder people use),
>the raised letters/logos would likely use the very part of the sidewall
>through which the line ends up going. I can't believe there would be a
>convenient strip of solid black sidewall onto which the line could be
>applied. IMO the applied line would look extremely cheesy -- kind of like
>putting on wire wheel hubcaps on regular steel wheels, braided steel hose
>wraps on rubber hoses, Neuspeed racing decals on the windshield, etc.. Or am
>I missing something about non-lined tires (ie. blackwalls)? Anyone have a
>
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:46:24 -0500
>From: David Friedlander <forzion@maine.rr.com>
>Subject: Re: Coker tires
>
>Peter;
>
>I haven't seen these, I've been told about them though be several tire
>shops near me. They all seemed to think it was legitimate. I have no
>pictures, it's just what I've been told and by more than one source.
>
>Dave
>
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