Jersey Evening Post

WIN one of three sets of tyres from The Cog & Sprocket

What is a bike without tyres? This rubber bit that wraps around your wheels give comfort when riding through common roads, to provide grip when cornering and to reduce rolling resistance so you can push forward using less effort. What started as a metal strip around the outside of the wooden wheel took nearly half a century to evolve into what we know today as the pneumatic tyre, developed by two great Scotsmen, Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop.