[CR]all weather tires ??

(Example: Racing:Wayne Stetina)

Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:26:42 +0200
From: "Amir Avitzur" <avitzur@013.net>
To: Classicrendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]all weather tires ??

Last year I bought some old Wolbers from Renaissance-Cycles. They looked great on my old Bertin and handled well enough.

Unfortunately they wore out and had to be replaced with locally available tires. Since then I've used a bunch of modern tires and have noticed a few things about them. They are light, fast, ugly (no sidewalls) and dangerous on wet roads.

Israel's average annual rainfall is only 60 days a year. Most riders ride their trainers on rainy days ... so there may be no reason to import and sell all-weather tires.

My question is:

Are there any modern (preferably wide) all-weather tires with sidewalls that look good on classic bikes?

Amir Avitzur
Ramat-Gan, Israel