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I picked up an absolutely lovely early eighties Carlton Pro-am at the tip, basically mint, basically unused, for a whole twenty pounds. It rides lovely, but it is a bit worrying riding on forty year old tyres...
It will only ever be used for sunny pootles to a pub, so I don't really want to spend too much on it (I've already doubled it's value buying a longer seatpost…). However, it would be good to keep the retro look, so anyone know where I can pick up some 700x23 (the ones on there say they're 25s, but they're blimmin' little for 25s) tan wall tyres for very little cash?
Panaracer Pasela, perhaps.
Under £20 a tyre
https://terraventure.co.uk/msctires/msc-road-performance/
Done eroica on these 100 miles no issue
Our school bus used to go past the Carlton factory - late 60s, early 70s.
Panaracer/Rivendell Jack Brown 33c
Blue for puncture protection.
Green for lightness/suppleness.
£17 from On One when I bought mine. So they could be anywhere between £4.99 and £70 today.
https://www.merlincycles.com/schwalbe-one-v-guard-evolution-road-folding-tyre-700c-100494.html
tanwall in 25mm.