Who's Had a 29" Tube Blowout When in a Coker Wheel?

GizmoDuck wrote:
How light it is depends how much sealant you put in it

As for tyre pressures, it allows you to run lower pressures off-road.
On road You can still have it up pretty hard, although I don't
understand why people are using such high pressures. I run my tyres
softer than most- I think it absorbs alot of road bumps and actually
ends up being faster and comfortable (hence less tiring riding) that
way.



Same here! I always use low pressure. You can push a lot faster
off-road with a soft tire (like suspension).


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Off-road, methinks, the lower pressures are better. But road bikes
pretty much always run 110-120 PSI. Much more than 120 and you're
asking to be slowed down by bumps on the road, though. Keep in mind
this is with two wheels, which means that for the same absorption of
bumps on a unicycle as a road bike with 120 PSI in the tires, something
more than 120 would be required, maybe 180 (assuming that 2/3 of your
weight was on the rear wheel on the bike). So.... as for -road- bumps,
I think we can't really get our tires hard enough on unicycles quite
yet. I just run 60 PSI: as high as I can go without being totally
deathly afraid of a blowout.

That's my rationale, but obviously, unicycling and road biking might be
different enough to cause us to want more bump absorption on a unicycle
than a bike. If your thinking is based purely on that
don't-want-to-bounce-up-and-down efficiency, though, I think we can't
yet go high enough for that to be a problem.


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chuckaeronut wrote:
Off-road, methinks, the lower pressures are better. But road bikes
pretty much always run 110-120 PSI. Much more than 120 and you're
asking to be slowed down by bumps on the road, though. Keep in mind
this is with two wheels, which means that for the same absorption of
bumps on a unicycle as a road bike with 120 PSI in the tires, something
more than 120 would be required, maybe 180 (assuming that 2/3 of your
weight was on the rear wheel on the bike). So.... as for -road- bumps,
I think we can't really get our tires hard enough on unicycles quite
yet. I just run 60 PSI: as high as I can go without being totally
deathly afraid of a blowout.

That's my rationale, but obviously, unicycling and road biking might be
different enough to cause us to want more bump absorption on a unicycle
than a bike. If your thinking is based purely on that
don't-want-to-bounce-up-and-down efficiency, though, I think we can't
yet go high enough for that to be a problem.



I run almost half that pressure. A high pressure Coker tyre doesn't
ride very well for me.


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