Re: 27" tires at Walmart any good?

On May 6, 2:00 am, Werehatrack <raul...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:49:38 -0500, m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 may have said:
>
> >My girlfriend has an older schwinn bike with 27" rims.
>
> >She needs tires bad.  Are the tires sold at Walmart in
> >27" size any good? Tubes as well?
>
> >Or should I convince her to get some name brand tires
> >at tubes elsewhere?
>
> Unless she's a demanding, competitive-level rider, those tires will
> probably work perfectly well. OTOH, at any given time there's usually
> a better tire to be had for what amounts to the same price per pair
> from one of the mail order houses, now that VoldeMart swapped to
> higher-priced Kevlar-bead tires instead of the inexpensive wire-bead
> versions that they used to carry.

Depends on which *mart. The red circle mart most definitely has
switched to kevlar due to ease of stocking, but some of the Wally
worlds are still moving old stock misery--not that wire bead is bad,
but the casings of those tires are awful. My local Sun and Ski in the
mall has some pretty nice moderate width tires in 27 and 700, while my
LBS has only gumwalls if you don't want skinnies--go figure, that's
why I mail ordered the Paselas I use.