Singletrack/MTB
Gravel/All-road
Dirt-road Touring
Fat-bike
First launched in 2020, Rubberlover is an online tire database designed to help cyclists find the perfect tire. After disappearing for a while, we’re happy to report that founder Jason Lynch has brought it back! Learn more here…
Jason Lynch came up with the idea for an online database of tires when building up a custom Tempest Bicycles Thunderhorse for touring in Australia. He wanted a central place to search and compare tires, so he made one, and Rubberlover was born. Jason explains, “For what started as a dumb side project with ridiculous branding, the response was kind of surreal. People loved it, they contributed heaps of ideas and corrections, requested features, complained about missing 26-inch tyres, and somehow helped turn it into a genuinely useful little community resource.”
Unfortunately, the site became too big and difficult to manage with the madness of life/work/kids/COVID, so he let go of it and the old domain. Jason always wanted to revive it, and we’re happy to report that after using some modern tooling he had to learn for his day job, Rubberlover is officially back! He rebuilt it from the ground up, with a modern stack, better methods for collating tire data, improved filtering, and a much larger dataset.
The new version is still very much in its rebirth phase, but so far, it includes over 4,500 tires across gravel, MTB, road, and bikepacking, with filtering for wheel size, tire width, casing, tubeless, sidewall/tread color, weights, etc.
Head over to the new domain at Rubberlover.Bike to dig in.
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