High Speed Rear Blowouts

Every thing I can read on tire slippage on the rim is related to low tire pressure or the bead not being seated properly on the rim...... Scwalbe tires says to over inflate a tire a little to correctly seat it if it isnt. If the bead isnt seated properly you can tell by an edge slightly above the bead not being uniform all the way around the edge of the rim. You should be able to see this edge when the tire is fully inflated......my eyes are getting buggy I hope this helps. Is your tire pressure reader accurate?

Slow down! Bicycles and bicycle hardware are not designed to go faster than you can pedal. You are pushing the envelope, risking life and limb without knowing it.

I had a high speed tire blow-out. green slime everywhere my solution, don't go so fast. I know you can get a ticket in Tucson for going over 20mph.

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slowing down isn't a solution, it's a compromise.

it's a pretty common problem. seems like it mostly happens with thicker tubes.

i dunno if this would work with slime tubes, 'cause i'd never go near them (i've seen some cool ghostbuster effects when they blow) but to properly seat a tire and tube when you first put them on, is to inflate them, then let all the air out, then fill them back up. this helps to make sure you don't have a fold or a twist in them.

one trick i've done is rough up the rim where the bead of the tire sits. you don't want it jagged, you want like a knurled surface. gives the tire something to grip.

Truer words are rarely spoken!

Besides, most of the folks on this fine forum ride in the 30mph+ range - the rest do too, they just fudge the numbers lol

Yeah, I know there's a few that Sunday cruise - but I'd bet they get riled from time to time though, gotta clean the cobwebs out right?

No, it's natural selection (see The Darwin Awards).

if you wanna talk natural selection, the slow get eaten...

Tell a turtle that and he just might smile at ya! Ants might give ya a hollar too.

what i meant, originally, is telling "Charged Reactor" that the way to solve the problem of high speed blowouts is to "slow down," isn't an answer. that's like saying, "if you don't ride the bike in the first place, you'll never have a flat."

as far as natural selection and darwinism goes, if we used the same rationality as "don't do it" we, as a species, would've never survived, and the ants and the turtles would'nt even remember a time when those scared, biped creatures hid in their caves...

so there. nyaah nyaah

Turtle soup, chocolate covered ants... nuff said.