Dunlop Bike Tires Celebrates 50 Years

Dunlop celebrates its fiftieth 12 months of manufacturing bike tires within the U.S. this 12 months. Based in 1923 in Ontario, the corporate moved its bike tire manufacturing to Tonawanda, New York, in 1973. 5 years later, Dunlop started what would turn out to be a significant relationship with Harley-Davidson, which noticed such improvements as vast white partitions and multitread touring tires.

At the moment, Dunlop continues to provide top quality bike tires. As a testomony to the standard of those tires, our reviewer in a test of the Dunlop American Elite tires acknowledged: “In reality, in over 48 years of using bikes (don’t decide), these are the perfect street tires I’ve ever tried.” Dunlop can be the official tire of MotoAmerica and American Flat Observe racing sequence.

For extra details about Dunlop’s storied historical past and present choices, learn the press launch beneath.

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BUFFALO, NY — It could be laborious to imagine that Dunlop has been a essential a part of the western New York Neighborhood for 100 years now, with its first tire rolling off the meeting line in 1923. For half of these 100 years, this manufacturing facility produced over 20 million bike tires for the North American market. Again within the early Nineteen Seventies, bike tire molds have been moved from the Dunlop plant in Whitby, Ontario, throughout the Canadian border to the close by Dunlop manufacturing facility positioned in Tonawanda, New York, simply outdoors the Buffalo metropolis limits. By 1973, this plant was producing the K81, K70, and finally the K88 bike tires.  

Quick monitor to March of 1978, a Dunlop K181 inbuilt that very same Tonawanda plant gained a tire shoot-out carried out by Harley-Davidson in San Antonio, Texas, which might solidify its future and alter the course of historical past for the model and the individuals designing and constructing tires on the Tonawanda plant. That shootout win began a relationship with Harley-Davidson that finally led to Dunlop being awarded the Unique Tools tire enterprise for 1981 Harley-Davidson Sportster bikes. This partnership has lasted over 4 many years with the 2 corporations collaborating on quite a few tire improvements, together with issues we take with no consideration, like vast white partitions and multi-tread touring bike tires.

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At the moment, Dunlop Bike Tires stays the most important bike tire producer headquartered and absolutely operational inside america. The corporate is the most important bike tire producer primarily based within the North American market. “It’s unbelievable to suppose this facility has been constructing bike tires for 50 years. Much more exceptional is the model’s partnership with Harley-Davidson and the way that relationship has pushed our know-how and innovation to ship world-class market-driven merchandise for North American riders,” stated Mike Buckley, Dunlop Bike’s vice chairman of gross sales and advertising. “Having the R&D and manufacturing positioned so near the market has been invaluable to our success. It’s not nearly touring tires although; moreover, our help of North American Street Racing and Flat Observe with tires designed and constructed right here additional demonstrates our dedication to this market.”

The corporate’s R&D crew, positioned in Buffalo, New York, has been dedicated to American racing and is the official tire of MotoAmerica and American Flat Observe sequence, the place all of the tires used within the sequence are developed and manufactured by Dunlop in its New York facility. As well as, a lot of Dunlop’s widespread tires, just like the American Elite, D401, D402, D407, D408, Sportmax Q5, Sportmax Q5S, Trailmax Mission, and plenty of extra are produced in the identical footprint that began manufacturing in 1973.

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