Originally Posted by
jawnn
Ok this photo shows what started the bumps, the casing was cut from the out side by a puncture that would have left any one else with a flat tire and a hopelessly chewed up tube.
I am going to start gluing tire treads on the road side of the high pressure tires I use. The 2.25” moped tire at 35 psi can't do as well as three tire treads per wheel.
Obviously that is too much weight for most people, so I can expect the tire industry to ignore what I want. Or even send in a professional agitator to repudiate my tire odyssey.
The weight isn't really that big of a deal. I've seen 400lb GVW tandems running road tires. My girlfriend and I are approx 330 lbs GVW on our tandem. We have a wheelset with 26x2.2" tires and one with 700x28mm tires. The fat tires have more latitude as far as pressures are concerned. It is really important to have any tire aired up into the good pressure range whenever you're carrying that much weight.
No way I'd run Alphabite clones like that one pic in the OP on the tandem. Rear tire would probably only be good for 1000mi or so. Decent 2.2" tires last us about twice that. I haven't had the road tires on long enough to need a swap, but I'm guessing we'll get about 1500 miles on the rear 700x28 Clement LGG 120tpi.