I don't usually worry about it, either. If teh beads look decent and it hold air, I ride. I even use the nominal width, not the actual, to choose the tire pressures, then I round up to the nearest 5#. Works great!
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:15 AM, PATRICK MOORE <[email protected]> wrote: > I never bothered to check. Apart from one Tom Slick that had a bump in it > noticeable when I rode (it wasn't round) and one other tire I forget that > tended to pop off the rim, I just mount and ride. > > Well, mount, *inflate* and ride. > > Patrick "trying to stretch his Big Apple Liteskins from 60 mm to 70 mm" > Moore, who doesn't use talc or soap or anythin' 'cept a pump. > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Earl Grey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> To follow up, >> >> I bought a floor pump, dismounted the tires, soaped them up, >> remounted, overinflated, still the same variability. Dismounted again, >> covered (dry) bead in baby powder, remounted, overinflated to about >> 90psi, left overnight, still about 0.5mm variability in tire width >> (between 34.7 and 35.2mm for the 35mm Pasela on Synergy OC, at about >> 35psi). The "witness line" is still not even all the way around, >> varying by about 0.5mm. I tend to think that this is variability in >> the tire, and not poor mounting, but what do I know. I am fairly >> certain this variability is completely inconsequential, I am just >> surprised it exists. >> >> I would be curious to know any of you who pride themselves on good >> tire mounting skills can measure similar variability in tire width. >> >> -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW at [email protected] > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rbw-owners-bunch%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- Ken Freeman Ann Arbor, MI USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
