Author Topic: Anyone know what year Comp 8's are from? (Read 447 times)

mark 2 · « **on:** June 04, 2009, 06:58 PM »

I never know what era bike to put them on

Thank you

bodamus · « **Reply #1 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:59 PM »

I don't know $:-\$

OrgasmDonor · « **Reply #2 on:** June 05, 2009, 12:58 PM »

ive got a few pairs but aint got a clue, sorry, proper berm eaters tho, no better tyre for the front IMO

mark 2 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 05, 2009, 02:11 PM »

Great tyre - if you had to compromise and was a toss up between a recently made rainbow comp 3 or a comp 8 to chuck on an os bike....mmmm who knows. I haven't got any rainbows anyway come to think of it.

bobafett · « **Reply #4 on:** June 06, 2009, 02:42 PM »

I'd go on logo type rather than tread pattern to tell the age personally $:-\$ Last pair of comp 8's i saw had the blue/grey (silver) logo on so i think that puts them around 85/86 ?

MartyC · « **Reply #5 on:** June 06, 2009, 03:50 PM »

I am sure they were around in 85/86 HOWEVER I can't find any ads or reviews in BMX Action around that time at all not later which is really puzzling. Someone must know, where's JJ when you need him

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Mattdub · « **Reply #6 on:** June 06, 2009, 07:30 PM »

Quote from: MartyC on June 06, 2009, 03:50 PM

I am sure they were around in 85/86 HOWEVER I can't find any ads or reviews in BMX Action around that time at all not later which is really puzzling. Someone must know, where's JJ when you need him .

Know what you mean ref the magazine ads , I don't remember them and I retired from racing in 87 and upto this point Comp 3's , 4's and Knarlers were most peeps choice .

MartyC · « **Reply #7 on:** June 07, 2009, 12:10 PM »

Quote from: Mattdub on June 06, 2009, 07:30 PM

Quote from: MartyC on June 06, 2009, 03:50 PM
I am sure they were around in 85/86 HOWEVER I can't find any ads or reviews in BMX Action around that time at all not later which is really puzzling. Someone must know, where's JJ when you need him .

Know what you mean ref the magazine ads , I don't remember them and I retired from racing in 87 and upto this point Comp 3's , 4's and Knarlers were most peeps choice .

I stopped riding in late 86 but I used to help out still at Heff's and then at my mates bike shop through 87 to 90 and definitely remember seeing them and putting them on bikes; it was as though they had been around for ages...

mark 2 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 07, 2009, 01:31 PM »

I like the theory of the blue /silver logo as the age signifier, that's what I've got. At least it makes them a bit more usable and correct than some modern cop out. They were on a Judge which would have been an 85, so possibly they were a correct era tyre, never thought they were.