Originally Posted by
Crawdaddy
That is the sillyest thing Ive ever heard. The chances of a properly mounted and inflated tire coming off a rim is just about impossible. I believe you are arguing for the sake of arguing on a subject you know nothing about
Ignoring the issues of my depth of knowledge or credentials, what you say is true.
The chances of a properly mounted tire coming off are slim to none. But the operative phrase here is "properly mounted".
Here on BF we have countless threads about tires blowing off rims, so it obviously happens fairly often.
But, we don't hear of it leading to injury, which was my point.
In any case, I was responding to a
your claim that a blowout could cause the tire to come off the rim, which you now claim is just about impossible.