My total bike collection is now 27.5″. As such the pile of 26″ tyres in my garage (that I’m a little tired of tripping over) is now surplus to requirements.

There’s around 20 tyres in total (Maxxis, Intense, Spesh, etc) and a range of widths.
As I’m in the industry I’ve blagged quite a lot of these for free and not paid a huge amount for the rest so I’m happy to give a few pairs to several deserving recipients for nothing. All I ask is that you donate some cash to a worthy charity at this festive time of year.

If you’re interested in having a few please email me on richie@silverfish-uk.com with your address and il get some sent.

Cheers

R

Ygm

most people by the looks of the singletrack poll 🙂

Nice gesture, yhm.

No offence fudge but your entire history on here appears to be selling in the classifieds – I genuinely don’t mean offence with this – but, it’s hard for me not to worry that I’m going to GIVE you tyres that you then sell.

Fair concern?

Richie which model specialized do you have that I can maybe donate for ?

Lovely gesture, ygm

ygm.

If I am worthy….

Hi Renton – I genuinely can’t remember I’m afraid but I was just going to grab a few pairs of any brand for each person in a lucky dip stylee.
It’ll be a nice surprise 🙂

Yep that will be fine for me thank you very much.

I’ve sent you an email but got an out of office reply.

Do you have and preferred charities?

As I’m military I was going to donate to help for heroes.

Would love some

Yeah sorry – forgot to say, due to the latest Minisilverfish arrival you’ll get my auto office but I’ll pick up the mails regardless.
Glad the gesture has been well received and the tyres will be used rather than creating a trip hazard!

Help for Heros is perfect. I’m happy for the recipients to choose though.

I’ve emailed your out of office .same as above any charity’s I can bung a few £ too. Oh Yeh forgot my address. More emails your way

Righto- I just checked my emails, there are 21 already so let’s say the tyres are all gone!!!

Also, hardly anyone has told me there name on here so I can’t tell you whose getting any. Sorry!

RLNI since my bro is at sea.

YGM with my address if you have any left over.

mail sent, nice gesture. merry christmas!

I’ve not emailed you but just want to say ur a top man

Aye, top stuff this!

I’ve given 20 quid to the ‘victims of marketing’ charity.

If you can’t say anything nice..

I gave heaps away when I left the UK, was good to know they were going to get used and appreciated.

It’s nice to know someone is thinking of those poor 26″ riders at Christmas 😉

Hi, YGM if its not too late…

Merry Christmas

Ian

What a really nice thing to do. Well done and Merry Christmas richiethesilverfish.

where’s that bloomin Like button when you need it

Nice work, and Congrats and as well.

Wow, Father Christmas does still exist 🙂 email sent, if I’m not too late to the party..

No offence taken mate I’m just very fickle, my main reason was it was a charitable donation, my wife runs a charity and volunteers with the homeless so I was posting more for the reason of donating, and the tyres were to be donated locally aswell.

Chinny reckon 🙂

Right, I had a heap of emails for these tyres so I guess 26″ aint dead yet 😉

That said, most people didn’t actually give me their postal address which makes sending stuff in the post quite hard.

Anyway – a little tyre bundle is coming out to 5 people right now. Plus a DT Swiss front wheel to one lucky person too as, well, if I’m honest, I couldn’t be bothered to take the tyre off.
Dont get too excited though – its a bit battered and trail scarred.

Thanks in advance for making donations guys.

Cheers

Richie

I’m holding out for the yeti and mondraker frame giveaway…

For those late to the Singletrack Rubber Aid* party my name is Sodajim, and I had a rubber problem.

I’m happy to follow Richie’s lead as I know he’s a decent little chap and do the same thing with my spare rubber. All 26″ and all probably barely ridden before they got discounted for being wrong for me. All folding and at the time the pukka compound versions.

Off the top of my head without taking a look:
Pair 2.4ish small block 8’s unused
2.1 ish Maxi Aspen, Advantage, Crossmark 1 of each and all the hi tpi ones.
2.3 pair Conti Speed King Supersonic, used but plenty of life as they don’t wear out.
Pair 2.1 Conti Speed King Supersonic, less use but narrow though would be nice for a commuter/ towpath build.
2.2 I think Racing Ralf UST Evo’s pair.

I think that’s it for the ones I know definitely are not for me. They are all at least 4 years old so expect cobwebs, the odd trace of dry mud and possibly dried up white residue depending on if I was experiment with tubeless at the time. Donations to the charity of your choice but just take into account I’m pretty tied up over the next few weeks and Christmas so they might not get posted until the week commencing 5th Jan when I’m back at work with my feet up which shouldn’t be a problem as they are all pretty much summer treads.

email james at neebholdings dot co .uk

Come on people, take Richie’s lead and lets make a difference this christmas ….

*Rubber Aid allegedly cleared for use by Sir Bob and Bono

nice gesture richiethesilverfish

Have a Christmas hug Richie and congrats on the mini-me’s arrival.

sodajim – email sent re the Small Block 8’s.

Jam bo no worries, since a management crack down any emails sent to me with rubber in the title might get picked up in my spam filter so I’ll keep an eye out for it.

On the 5th day of christmas singletrack sent to me…. 5 random 26 inch tyres…..
4 ?
3 ?
2 ?
and a shark head bottle opener…

It’s Christmastime; there’s no need to be afraid
At Christmastime, you let in light with your rubber-aid
And in our world of small wheels we can spread a smile of gnar
Throw your arms around the tyre at Christmastime

But say a prayer to pray for 29er ones
At Christmastime
It’s hard, but when you’re having more 26er fun
There’s a world outside your window
And it’s a world of old fashioned gear
Where the trails won’t come alive due to the 650b fear

And the Pro2 hubs that ring there
Are the clanging chimes of vroom
Well tonight thank STW it’s free tyres for you
And we hope that there’ll be snow in Britain this Christmastime

The greatest gift we’ll get is time to ride our bikes
Oh, where everything is cool and the rain and trails flow
Christmas can’t come fast enough at all

Here’s to you, spin a wheel for ev’ryone
Here’s to us, underneath that freezing sun
With free tyres from Richie and sodajim

Spin the wheel etc

Stevied Quality ! 😀

small block 8’s gone Edit* thanks to Jim’s donation to BLISS … 😀