House of Looptail 26″ Snake Belly & Comp Deuce Added To bmxultra.com Gear Calculator.

The free online bmxultra.com Gear Calculator has now been updated to include the House of Looptail’s 26″ tires in order to reach our goal of making our Gear Calculator the most comprehensive for BMX full stop.

Thanks to Wakeman from House of Looptail for providing the measurements.

About the House of Looptail Snake Belly Tire

Right at home on any early Klunker, Cruiser or MTB, the Snake Belly™ features an instantly-recognizable tread design like no other, and performance to match.

A tire as significant as the Snake Belly™ has of course been copied (poorly) and riffed-on (cheaply) a dozen times over the years.  But our new Snake Belly ™ tire is no copy, no tribute, and no cheap replica.  This tire is the real deal, with real DNA, and then some.

In 1979 Panaracer Tire Corporation of Japan designed and manufactured the first Snake Belly™ tires for 20” BMX bikes. This design was scaled up to 26” not too long thereafter, instantly becoming a juggernaut of BMX Cruiserdom as well as arguably the first purpose-built “Mountain Bike” tire. Now, forty-five years later, we are extremely proud to have a formal partnership with Panaracer™ to again produce this iconic tire.

While other tributes invariably go cheap, we’ve taken the exact opposite approach.  Not only do we have the original designer and manufacturer on board, we’ve elevated the quality of this tire to new heights.  There’s literally never been a Snake Belly™ this nice:

• Exact original tread design
• Brand-new mold
• Modern, lightweight 60tpi casing
• Folding aramid bead
• 60 psi maximum
• Panaracer’s proprietary ZSG™ Zero Slip Grip all-condition rubber, specifically tuned for this application
• 26 x 2.125” only.

About the House of Looptail Competition Deuce Tire

The influence of motocross on the beginnings of both BMX and mountain biking is impossible to overstate.

Kids on bikes, emulating their moto-heroes, is the very foundation of Bicycle Motocross.

At the very same time, adventurous riders on old balloon-tire Schwinns were pushing their bikes up & down mountains in search of good times, inadvertently creating a new sport. Early on, these pioneers of what became “mountain biking” adopted grips, handlebars, control levers and cables directly from the off-road motorcycle world.  It worked!

So when it came to creating some of the first dedicated off-road bicycle tires, it made perfect sense to mimic a motocross tire.  Whether it was about imitating an aesthetic or realizing a perceived benefit, many of the first and best off-road bicycle tires were indeed inspired by motocross knobbies.  The Mitsuboshi Comp 2.  The IRC X-1 Racer.  The Specialized Stumpjumper.  And others.

Unfortunately, it’s been decades since a high-quality, basic motocross knobby tire has been available to us.  House of Looptail® has finally changed this with the new Competition Deuce™!

The Competition Deuce™ is our knobby tire in the size you want, with the look you want.  It will actually fit between the stays of your early cruiser, klunker, or mountain bike, looks like it belongs there, without any stupid logos, graphics, colors, or modernized tread patterns, and it promises to perform better than any of its knobbied predecessors.

Produced for us in Japan by Panaracer™, the Comp Deuce™ is of the absolute finest quality and far surpasses anything available in the 70’s or 80’s.  Lightweight 60tpi / 60psi casings.  Foldable aramid fiber beads.  And Panaracer’s proprietary ZSG™ Zero Slip Grip rubber compound which, like all our tires, is tuned specifically for this application.

If you want that authentic early “Moto” look for the vintage BMX cruiser, klunker or MTB you are STILL RIDING, look no further than the Competition Deuce™. Perfect for show, but meant for GO!

• Blackwall or Tanwall.
• 26 × 2.125” only.

Check out houseoflooptail.com for more information.

ABOUT THE BMXULTRA.COM GEAR CALCULATOR

For over two decades we have been committed to providing the best and most comprehensive FREE online BMX Gear Calculator available, keeping it up to date with the latest in BMX tires. If you notice any tire options missing be sure to contact us and we will add them as soon as we can.

While all other gear calculators provide you with the Gear Inches or Roll Out for your specific gear, ours provides both in an accurate chart based on your tire of choice, so you can compare multiple gear options with just a single gear selection. You can also store up to 5 tire/gearing combinations for quick reference.

The free web based online calculator works well on any browser and device (Android devices, iPhones, iPads, PCs, laptops, etc) and we encourage everyone to take full advantage of the free calculator.

Check out the updated online version here: bmxultra.com/gear-calculator