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Old 01-05-05 | 11:51 AM
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SDS
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1) May we respectfully suggest that you learn to install tires without entrapping some portion of the tube under the bead of the tire?

2) Some loosely fitted wired-on tires will come off the rim during a stop with lateral loading after a rapid deflation at a high speed. Folding tires usually won't. This is because the specification for the bead diameter for wired-on tires must be a little greater because the wire bead is less flexible than a folding bead.

The issue is complicated by manufacturer motivations to conform to market forces and ETHRO specification: rim manufacturers can make any tire mount easily by building at the lower end of the specification, and tire manufacturers can make any tire fit easily by building to the upper end of the specification. You can imagine what happens when two slices of bread that both landed jelly-side-down come together....and some hook beads work better than others.

Try and limit your tires to 120 psi. With a gauge. Several gauges is better. Then you can dump the one that doesn't match the others. If they are all bad, don't put jelly on bread.....
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