Originally Posted by
Schwinn me
I assumed wire bead tires would stay mounted better, no high pressure blow outs i.e. tire coming off the rim. This is not true? I have been buying wire bead tires for this reason but based on intuition. Figured the folders were mostly for storage purposes.
Folding bead tires will stay on your rims just fine. There are many of us here who have collectively put many hundreds of thousands of miles on them without blowing a tire off the rim. In fact, as @
DiabloScott points out above, some of the kevlar beads are a bear to get onto the rim and equally tough to get off.
If you have a problem with tires blowing off the rim it is a matter of bad match between tire and rim. Search for threads on using tires designed for hooked rims with straight-sided rims or the intricacies of the various 26" tire sizes.
Brent