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Michelin Power Endurance Tires
On 2017-10-30 12:20, wrote:
On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:17:39 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-30 12:14, Doug Landau wrote: [...] and then appeared alarmed at my response, and said emphatically "Below 80 they can roll off in a corner!!!" They don't. Also, ever since I switched to thick tubes it takes 6-8 weeks to drop to 75psi. I can't remember rolling a tire off unless the pressure was reduced to near nothing by a flat. I'm sure that you could roll a tubular off at lower pressures so that might be where that myth came from. I only know it from mountain bikers running low pressures on tubeless tires ... PSHOOOF ... sometimes a wee bit of air remained, sometimes it was all gone or the tire came off. Of course, the real die-hards will not be fazed by a tire coming off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoCSzVmhhQ I have only done that slowly and as straight as possible. When a side wall blows out the tube and tire are hosed anyhow so I continue riding on the flat as long as possible. Pretty much until the tire is about to wear through where the rim could contact the soil or pavement. Any mile not walked is time saved for the trip home. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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Michelin Power Endurance Tires
On 10/30/2017 3:17 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-10-30 12:14, Doug Landau wrote: When I started road cycling the nice guy at my LBS who was mentoring meĀ* expressed surprise that I was not yet pumping up my tires every day, ... There you can see how much cyclists have gotten used to sub-par gear. Can you imagine having to pump up the tires of your car every few days? And can you imagine having to pedal your car to get it to go 20 mph? Yes, we cyclists really are using inferior equipment! It's an outrage! -- - Frank Krygowski |
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Michelin Power Endurance Tires
On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:32:06 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-10-30 12:20, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:17:39 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-30 12:14, Doug Landau wrote: [...] and then appeared alarmed at my response, and said emphatically "Below 80 they can roll off in a corner!!!" They don't. Also, ever since I switched to thick tubes it takes 6-8 weeks to drop to 75psi. I can't remember rolling a tire off unless the pressure was reduced to near nothing by a flat. I'm sure that you could roll a tubular off at lower pressures so that might be where that myth came from. I only know it from mountain bikers running low pressures on tubeless tires ... PSHOOOF ... sometimes a wee bit of air remained, sometimes it was all gone or the tire came off. Of course, the real die-hards will not be fazed by a tire coming off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoCSzVmhhQ I have only done that slowly and as straight as possible. When a side wall blows out the tube and tire are hosed anyhow so I continue riding on the flat as long as possible. Pretty much until the tire is about to wear through where the rim could contact the soil or pavement. Any mile not walked is time saved for the trip home. I got a flat on a gatorskin and discovered my flat pack missing. I don't know if it fell off or was stolen. There was a Performance Bicycle in Dublin that I remembered and rode three or four miles there and replaced the tube etc. and carried on without any visible damage to the sidewalls of the gatorskin. |
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On 2017-10-31 06:32, wrote:
On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:32:06 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-30 12:20, wrote: On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 12:17:39 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-30 12:14, Doug Landau wrote: [...] and then appeared alarmed at my response, and said emphatically "Below 80 they can roll off in a corner!!!" They don't. Also, ever since I switched to thick tubes it takes 6-8 weeks to drop to 75psi. I can't remember rolling a tire off unless the pressure was reduced to near nothing by a flat. I'm sure that you could roll a tubular off at lower pressures so that might be where that myth came from. I only know it from mountain bikers running low pressures on tubeless tires ... PSHOOOF ... sometimes a wee bit of air remained, sometimes it was all gone or the tire came off. Of course, the real die-hards will not be fazed by a tire coming off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoCSzVmhhQ I have only done that slowly and as straight as possible. When a side wall blows out the tube and tire are hosed anyhow so I continue riding on the flat as long as possible. Pretty much until the tire is about to wear through where the rim could contact the soil or pavement. Any mile not walked is time saved for the trip home. I got a flat on a gatorskin and discovered my flat pack missing. I don't know if it fell off or was stolen. No, no, you sent them to me :-) ... There was a Performance Bicycle in Dublin that I remembered and rode three or four miles there and replaced the tube etc. and carried on without any visible damage to the sidewalls of the gatorskin. Then you were lucky. Mine were unfixable, it looks like someone fired a 45 through it from the other side. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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