Originally Posted by SpedFast (Post 22943426)

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Originally Posted by Pop N Wood (Post 22943904)

Seems like the practice of putting baby powder in the tire and filling new tubes in stages would help prevent this. You know, pump to 20 psi, release pressure down to 5, up to 30, down to 10, etc. This allows the tube to stretch and settle into the correct shape slowly without sticking and tearing.

Originally Posted by sknhgy (Post 22942522)

I didn't use tire levers to mount the tires. Didn't have to. Only barely used one plastic lever to open it up.
This is a bike-shop quality bike. Not a Walmart bike.
That shed got mucho hot for certain. Full sun, 100 degree day, no wind, little ventilation.

I just put new tubes on there and pumped them up to 40 psi. I bet they work now.

Originally Posted by Troul (Post 22943176)

suggest that her S.O. to do it...

Originally Posted by phughes (Post 22943944)

You are welcoming a bot?

Originally Posted by sknhgy (Post 22942484)

Let's say you put brand-new tubes on a beach cruiser. Then you fill both tires up to max pressure, 65 psi, and then you put the bike in a shed.
Next day it hits 100 degrees and that shed is out in the sun.
Next day both tires have flats, and both holes are right above the rim strips, but both rim strips are intact. One hole is a 1/4" slit, the other is a 1/2" slit. Would you say the tires blew from excess pressure, caused by the heat?
Asking for a friend.:innocent:

Originally Posted by cyccommute (Post 22944032)

Not really. Pump a tube up outside of a tire and the tube expands towards the side typically away from the valve stem faster. It is probably an artifact of the toroid of the tube and the way it is molded. This observation is what lead me to conclude that the tube is expanding towards the tire side first. Your scheme of pressurizing and releasing pressure doesn’t really address the problem.