Oh man, yea, that is bad news and sorry to hear DB is out of bike tires. I can see how grinding the trademarks/company names or whatever off the sidewalls might make some companies butt hurt. Sux bad for us! Wish I'd have known, I'd have ordered another set! Damn, I'm BUMMED!

OP can't touch on much other info than that already provided. The bottled shoe polish is nice because it is easy to apply, although it doesn't last long.

 

Should have had the shop take them off the wheels and sent em right back

 

Looks like hdwheels is the last option and people who thought Tab was expensive is in for a surprise

Might have to go black walls, or at least order the vee and send them back if they are ****

 

Kozy..whats Hdwheels?

 

Heard hdwheels uses db, also heard a rumor db will be back soon. Guess they're just waiting on a stamp to put the info they take off back on..must be a DOT thing

 

Just a thought ..... the place I get my tires from here in Phx , Az uses brake cleaner to take the blue off the WW`s ... and also to clean them .

 

I hope you're right! I could see regrouping and getting back at it for either Tab or DB. There is a market for these tires. Gotta strike while the iron's hot.

 

Yes HD Wheels uses DB. When looking I found some Shenko's I believe that we're WWW. Don't know the story behind those though, I thought it was through hothawgz.

 

You could always talk to them direct for the straight dope.

 

Whatever you do DON'T spend $300 for the Hot Hawgz 120/70/21 Wide White Wall. First clue was they don't state what tire manufacture they use for the tire. When I got the tire, it ended up being a Shinko with very little tread. I have a 21" and 16" DNA Mammoths that I run during the 4 months of good weather and the stock wheels in the 8 months of winter we have in Seattle. With 4 months last summer and 2 months this year tire tread is all gone and to make matters worse I noticed on the way to work today a good size split in the rubber. I'm considering finding another way home and bringing my winter wheel back to work and swap it to get the bike home. I just ordered a tire from Native Custom Baggers which is $100 more but is an Avon Cobra 120/70/21 which I know from having on my wife's Sportster starts with more than double the amount of tread the Shinko showed up with new.