Originally Posted by
Team Fab
I think car tires do have a bead, just not as pronounced.
I don't get the Enve design either. Unless a tire was designed for it specifically, don't all bike tires have some sort of bead?(Tubulars excepted).
Ok, it probably would have been more correct to say that automobile wheels don't have hook beads.
Old clincher wheels did not have hook beads. Clincher rims only started having hook beads with the move to high pressure clinchers. That's why clincher tires used to have maximum inflation pressures like 75psi.
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/tires/630.html
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Last edited by merlinextraligh; 04-08-14 at 02:02 PM.