Category: Bicycles

  • 13
    Aug

    Interesting Times – the best time to plan ahead…

    Many readers will have heard the apocryphal (some say Chinese) curse – ‘May you live in interesting times’.   Well, we certainly are going through an unprecedented time of worldwide upheaval and woe. Many businesses are forced to cut back, and others are watching and waiting. But marketing theory...

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  • 24
    Mar

    Conexpo 2020 – The Last Great Picture Show?

    I am old enough to remember the movie ‘The Last Picture Show’, Peter Bogdanovitch’s great black-and-white elegy for a disappearing way of life in a Mid-West American town.   This was brought to mind as OKO Tyre (Tire) Sealants made its first appearance at the huge triennial Conexpo construction...

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  • 18
    Jul

    Does OKO Look Different to You?

        If you feel you haven’t heard much from OKO recently, it’s because in addition to fulfilling our ever-increasing worldwide order book, we’ve been occupied with redesigning all of our products.   The job is now more or less complete, and as stocks of the previous designs run...

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  • 01
    Dec

    The History – and Future – of Tubeless Bicycle Tyre Sealants

    In the beginning – well quite a lot of years ago – there was Stan’s No-Tubes system; and if you wanted to go tubeless in those days you needed a simple latex sealant – to be lightweight (which after all is one of the key motivators for tubeless), to...

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  • 16
    Apr

    Pump Up the Volume – it’s the new release from OKO…

      It may seem a bit ‘geeky’ for us to get excited about a pump, but this is no ordinary tyre sealant offering – it’s the all-new OKO Drum Pump. Our previous model has served us well for many years, but we decided it was time to make a...

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  • 04
    Sep

    The 1-2-3 Knockout Show: OKO bike tyre sealants, Eurobike 2016

    The hard-to-get-to town of Friedrichshafen in SE Germany is the unlikely setting for the World’s biggest bicycle trade fair. But for the last 11 years it has been home to Eurobike; and the bike industry loves to meet and greet there. Since 2010, OKO has exhibited its range of...

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  • 09
    Jul

    Why Your Car’s Puncture Repair Kit may let you down Flat…

    If you’ve bought a new car in recent years, the chances are that you won’t find a spare wheel. But be honest, have you taken the time to examine the alternative emergency puncture solution that the manufacturer has bought in as an alternative? If not, I suggest you do...

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  • 14
    May

    OKO Tyre Sealants – doing a Leicester…

    This is a year that we will remember for a sporting achievement that no-one foresaw and most of us could scarcely believe. 2016 is the year in which to ‘do a Leicester’ will be commemorated in popular history. The little guys triumphed against colossal odds. And that may seem...

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  • 04
    Dec

    OKO 2015: online and on the move

    As the year draws to a close and we carry out our obligatory look back at the highlights, it is clear that OKO has enjoyed another record sales year and that is due in no small part to the digital advances that we have made.   OKO is primarily...

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  • 27
    Aug

    OKO and Habitat Mountainbike Team bond over a better tyre solution

      “This new Magic Milk is perfect!” (Maarten Kemperman, Team Principal, Habitat Mountainbike Team)   (Leading rider Maurits Buist with his new magic ingredient)   Experienced riders know that for tubeless ready tyres, you need a latex milk sealant to bond the tyre to the rubber rim strip. Natural...

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