Posted by Peter Moss on November 16, 2009, 9:53 pm
Apparently most bike street tubless tires are designed to stay on the rim if
they go flat, a few aren't. In the sense that you can hobble along at
walking speed for quite a way and not wreck the rim. The tire will be
hooped, but at least it stays on the rim and the rims OK.
I had a link once to a table giving this information but lost it.
I was wondering if anybody has a link to this info if they wouldn't mind
posting it.
Thnx
Pete.
Posted by The Older Gentleman on November 17, 2009, 2:10 am
> Apparently most bike street tubless tires are designed to stay on the rim if
> they go flat, a few aren't. In the sense that you can hobble along at
> walking speed for quite a way and not wreck the rim. The tire will be
> hooped, but at least it stays on the rim and the rims OK.
It's not like they're deliberately *designed* to stay on the rim. It's
just that modern radial tyres need really stiff sidewalls, and also have
a low aspect ratio, so they just tend to do so naturally.
Never *heard* of the table to which you allude.
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Posted by The Older Gentleman on November 17, 2009, 10:32 am
> > Bridgestone has an English language pamphlet on their Japanese
> > language website which states that their tires have had "run flat"
> > capability since the 1980's.
>
> No, it doesn't. We've done this before.
<Bad form posting>
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.motorcycles.tech/browse_thread/thread
/9a8211023fa13a4b
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Posted by The Older Gentleman on November 18, 2009, 2:19 am
> Yes I hobbled home once about the same distance with a flat on the back. I
> think it was a BT021 on it then.
>
> I was going to replace the tire anyway. It sounded like someone was killing
> a hundred pigs, the bike wondered all over the place, and the tire got real
> hot, but other than that everything was fine.
You can just about hobble home on a flat modern tyre - I managed to
hobble home more than once on a flat antique tyre - but the tyres aren't
run-flat in the accepted sense of the term. Check the link I posted
again.
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Posted by =?TIS-620?B?4s3BIMGz1SC70bfgwS on November 18, 2009, 8:29 am
On Nov 17, 11:19 pm, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Older
Gentleman) wrote:
> You can just about hobble home on a flat modern tyre - I managed to
> hobble home more than once on a flat antique tyre - but the tyres aren't
> run-flat in the accepted sense of the term.
However, the entire world has not accepted Neil Murray's personal
point of view
which uneasonably requires "run flat" motorcycle tires to meet the
same standards as car tires.
There are other riders who are reasonably satisfied with current
motorcycle tire technology, which allows one to safely reach the side
of the road, stop, and apply
a temporary repair that gets them home or to a repair facility.
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> they go flat, a few aren't. In the sense that you can hobble along at
> walking speed for quite a way and not wreck the rim. The tire will be
> hooped, but at least it stays on the rim and the rims OK.