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2. Schwinn Bicycle Company - Wikipedia

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   [6] [7] For the Aerocycle, F. W. Schwinn persuaded American Rubber Co. to make 2.125-inch-wide (54.0 mm) balloon tires, while adding streamlined fenders, an imitation "gas tank", a streamlined, chrome-plated headlight, and a push-button bicycle bell. [6] [8] The bicycle would eventually come to be known as a paperboy bike or cruiser.

3. Bicycle wheel - Wikipedia

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   These range from 16-inch diameter (e.g. Brompton) through 20 inches (e.g. Bike Friday) up to even 26 inches. Wheel rims also come in a variety of widths to provide optimum performance for different uses. High performance road racing rims are narrow, 18 mm or so. Wider touring or durable off-road tires require rims of 24 mm wide or more. [42]

4. Bicycle tire - Wikipedia

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   A balloon tire is a type of wide, large-volume, low-pressure tire that first appeared on cruiser bicycles in the US in the 1930s. They are typically 2 to 2.5 inches (51 to 64 mm) wide. In the 1960s Raleigh made its small-wheeled RSW 16 with balloon tires [68] so it would have a soft ride like the fully suspended Moulton Bicycle. Other ...

5. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company - Wikipedia

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   The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for passenger vehicles, aviation, commercial trucks, military and police vehicles, motorcycles, RVs, race cars, and heavy off-road machinery. It also licenses the Goodyear brand to bicycle tire ...

6. Cooper Tire & Rubber Company - Wikipedia

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   [15] [16] The newly established company, which has disintegrated from the Trayal Corporation, was named "Cooper Tire & Rubber Company Serbia" d.o.o. [16] As of 2016, it has around 740 employees and annual revenue of $76 million. An Indian company named Apollo Tyres agreed to buy Cooper Tires for $2.5 billion on June 12, 2013.

7. Tire code - Wikipedia

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   To differentiate from the earlier 90-ratio tires, the decimal point is usually omitted from the width – for example, 685-15 for a tire 6.85 inches wide. Starting in 1972 tires were specified by load rating, using a letter code. In practice, a higher load rating tire was also a wider tire. In this system a tire had a letter, optionally ...