![]() 09/10/2015 at 18:15 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
I found out recently that Panasonic is making tires... bicycle tires.
http://www.panaracer.com/home.php
Installed one just like this on one of my bikes recently.
With this and
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getting into car tires, what other unlikely tire makers are there out there?
![]() 09/10/2015 at 18:21 |
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Funnily enough, Lego is the world’s largest tire manufacturer.
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Garmin sells electronic zappy remote dog collars. Funny thing was, Panaracer sponsored the cycling team I'm on a few years ago
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Panasonic also makes Electric bikes. Source: My Father-in-Law has one.
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Panisonic has been making them since before I remember, bikes too.
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Just like the others have said, they also make bikes (mostly boring mamacharis)
I’m running a set of Panaracer RibMos on my bike currently, and they’re actually pretty damn good for the money (I picked them up for about 2000yen a piece). Granted, like most of my tire choices, they’re excellent dry tires, but kind of meh in the rain, especially on metal surfaces.
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They’re actually making pretty good tires and have been for a while. The best bike tires IMO are Continentals, but yeah the Panaracers have always been really great touring/commuting tires.
In the 80s Panaracer made a radial tire for bikes. So there’s that too.