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"Doug Cimperman" wrote in message ...
On 1/27/2015 8:05 AM, AMuzi wrote:

The prior art on the steel mesh thing is Wolber Invulnerable, a 1980-ish
clincher with a mesh band under the tread. Since they were committed to
cotton fabric at the time rather than nylon the tire had other problems
but the mesh bands were fine. Aramid-Kevlar banded tires displaced them
in short order anyway.


The mesh in the Invulnerable tire was not under any significant tension.
If it had been, the tire would not have had a normal round profile.

Looking around online at user reports, the Invulnerable was pretty
dreadful to ride and most people blame that on the mesh. I don't recall
seeing any clincher tires still made using cotton so it may have been a
combination of the two factors I suppose.

Vittoria make some of the fastest clinchers on the market using cotton. They rival and in some cases beat many other manufacturers' tubular offerings

Graham.

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AHA !

https://www.google.com/#q=cotton+bicycle+tires

one more anomaly ...bought 27" cotton sidewall Panaracers from Nashbar when 27" were out of stock. Sporty but fragile...noooo concrete seams or edges nada...felt responsively springy in suspension.

RBT said these tires did not exist. FooWho !