If it is not the tire blowing off the rim, the consider the bead and the rim tape.
I had a pair of Kojaks whose wire bead apparently included excess lengths of wire only flimsily held in place by the casing. These worked their way loose gradually with obvious consequences for the tubes. Even after I'd cut off the exposed wire and covered the end, more wire would work loose and so on. The NA supplier replaced them. One more sneaky little provoker of flats is shifting rim tape. If the puncture is in the valve side of the tube, consider this one. With poor tape, the pressure as the tube is inflated can push the strip away from a spoke hole letting the tube cut itself on the edge of the well or on exposed spoke. (Years ago, storing my prized Falcon near my bed, I was violently awakened one night from the depths of sleep by a loud explosion, which proved to be a tube bursting from this cause.) On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Nick Worthington <mrnouveauw...@gmail.com>wrote: > Querying the collective knowledge here. We're having a recurring problem > with the rear tire on my wife's Betty blowing out at around 60 PSI and > above. Schwalbe Little Big Ben, which is rated for 50-85 PSI. Yesterday, > it blew two blocks from home, after being topped up with air, ithad been > ridden with no problem for several months since the last blowout. Thought > it might be rim tape, so we actually swapped the whole wheel, since we had > a spare. Still happens. Once, it blew just after inflation, in our hands, > when we were replacing the tube from a prior blow out. I'm thinking it > must be the tire itself, but I don't see anything obvious - Maybe a > slightly rough patch near the bead, but it doesn't seem to have any obvious > pointy bits.... > > Thoughts? > > Nick W. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Albuquerque, NM, USA Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
