Originally Posted by jimmuller

Well, yeah. I had seen it mentioned here in BF, C&V in fact. It was a "let's see how it works as we go along" experiment. The tire dropped nicely into the slot of the rim. I pumped it up enough to hold his weight and keep the tire on the rim, but nowhere near what I'd usually ride because I didn't want it to risk pulling the seam apart where it made poor contact in the well of the rim. I gave him a stern warning about not cornering hard and to keep his speed down with the front brake on the 30+mph hill we had to descend. Then we rode for 100yds or so, stopped and check it out. It creaked a bit but nothing seemed seriously amiss so we continued to a happy ending.