London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

I'm sure this has come up before but a search didn't find me what i'm after. Prob not looking hard enough.
Anyway, i'm after a pair of completely gum coloured tyres for the girlfriends bike. I'm sure they exist, just can't seem to find em. Any suggestions?

This might be completely off the wall, but, hey - bear with me.
What if you found out the name of a bicycle tyre manufacturer - ooh, let's say, Michelin, perhaps Vredestein.
Next, go to their website and see what's available in the colour you seek - I doubt that anyone would refer to that shade as 'gum' though.
'Ecru', perhaps?

@ edmundro. On the hunt myself. May the search commence!

I'm not a tyre expert, but I personally would'nt expect to find these.

Rubber by itself is expensive and has pretty poor abrasion resistance. This is why car and bike tyres contain a supprising amount of reinforcing filler, usually carbon black. A fair bit of silica is also often added for grip (+ UV absorbers etc.). These compounds discolour the rubber, and thus the tread of the tyre is often black or coloured. I would have thought it would be difficult to achieve the translusant 'gum wall' colour on the tread with these compounds present.

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Continental do a GP4000 which is called bronze - it has black walls, so won't be what you're lookig for exactly, but other companies might refer to their gum colour as bronze too. Might help.

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Veloflex Does Gum/Yellow

I believe you can get fully gummy coloured tyres from Tour De Ville.

yup. they look amazing... not cheap though i dont think

fully gum = totally bone

ride on the pavements in oxford street on any given hot day (wishful thinking?) and hey presto, all that old gum on the pavement should now be on your tires...

What Vic said ^^^... They are fucking awesome...

Actually I intend to get some as well, so don't y'all go and buy them all up before I get there. Dan J-D-S-H's look really lovely and classy.

We have one set of full gum tyres left at Tour de Ville. More sets in red/yellow/green and gumwall combi though.

if it's a cruiser, then these schwalbe's are kindof gum.

they just look cream in the flesh

Indoor cycle speedway tyres are fully gum (I think)

Plus some roller trainer tyres are too.

Jesus Christ. Are you recommending people ride on the streets with these tyres?

Tyres scored from jos at tdv yesterday, they're lovely, ta very much for the help guys.

^pics?

Apologies but due to being a complete luddite i only have a 2mp camera phone. Doesn't do these tyres justice. The tread is the colour of caramac with reddish brown sidewalls. Looks like millionaires shortbread to me.
They're pariba paris-roubaix for anyone looking.

These are the gum Vredestein's from TdV:

What do you do with your testicles when you ride?

Ask Lance Armstrong.

Just pop 'em back inside. Doesn't everyone do that......? Hello?

Testicular jokes aside. I have real issues with that saddle. If you look at the rear section where you park your arse it's actually horizontal, if I tilt it any further forward I find myself sliding forward. I keep tensioning it but I cant get rid of the curve in it. Is it fucked? I have contacted Brooks and they have pointed me in the direction of a shop over Ladbrooke Grove way, someone who works there is a Brooks "expert" apparently so i'll see what she has to say about it.

cant find any of these tyres... anyone have any clue where i can find some?

oops...

Do you have any full gum tyres left?

Or does anyone know where I can pick a pair up?

TDV^^^ went there today to get some, they have a few with Gumwalls.... nothing fully gum, if I remember well.

aw shucks, do you know if they'll be getting them back in?

"recommendations" mean anything to you?

does anybodu know of a place that stocks gum fat franks or other 29er balloon tyres?

google hasn't been any friendly lately :'-(

optical illusion on that bike pic makes it look like 650 on the rear!