[CR]Tire Alert! procedures

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 12:28:43 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: CYCLESTORE@aol.com
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Tire Alert! procedures

Gilbert Anderson wrote:

"I'd be shocked if anyone could stitch a whole tire up for $20.00, then glue=20 the tape and throw in the tube for that. If it's true I want this guy worki= n=20 for me. Is his name David?"

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Actually, I do believe he splits the entire carcass, installs a new tube, and re-sews it.

The reason I believe this is because he always glues a new base-tape on. Why bother doing that if you just splice the new tube back together at the existing break?

I have been told by a couple of different people over the years, who may or may not have known what they were talking about, that the guy who runs this business bought some custom tooling from Clement or Victoria or someone in Italy, and he has the same tooling those companies had/have for assembling tires.

This could be inaccurate, but it seems likely he has *some* sort of specific semi-automated tooling for the job.

Charles Andrews
soCal