hersefan@comcast.net wrote:
> If I remember, a good friend "in the day" bought a bunch of Barum's
> and was extremely pleased - he was used to vittoria cx and cg's and
> he loved them. Not much later, though, they seemed very hard to get.
> And in the early 90's I aquired them for sale when I owned Bicycle
> Classics Inc. The ones I got were horrible - not straight, scary
> base tapes - sold them out with some scary disclaimers and advice
> that they might be best used as a spare.
>
> My guess is that at one point some emerged that were really great -
> but the good ones were available for just a short while and as Steven
> said they were pretty bad otherwise.
Perhaps it was a decline in quality as the Eastern European economies floundered in the early 90s. The Barums I picked up in Prague in 1977 were wonderful -- also some very nice East German (GDR) tires.
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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA