Originally Posted by
tligman
With no atmosphere to push back on the outside of the tires, the tubes would pop. You'd need to run solid tires. Or some kind of non-solid tire that doesn't rely on air pressure....
If the bead of the tire is strong enough, it would be no problem. And if a regular tire can hold 100 lbs of pressure, it should be no problem if you don't have the 15 lbs of counter-pressure provided by the atmosphere. Given the moon's gravity, 85 lbs of pressure could work fine.