Originally Posted by
nfmisso
There is a constant battle between Marketing, and Legal over what those numbers should be. Marketing wants as high as possible, Lawyers want no "booms" by a safe margin.
So true. Back in the 90s there was a Philadelphia edition of Interbike. A friend of mine and I got passes and attended one day. At one point, we talked with a rep from Continental. To our surpise, he told us that the max. pressure stamped on the side of the tire was only 50% of what the tire was engineered to withstand and that the legal department was the driving force behind the lower figure appearing on the tire.