I don't have any Schwalbe experience, but I did have a pair of folding paselas that had a weird bead flaw. the threads of the kevlar bead were squished flat in one spot. The same spot on both tires. As a result, the bead couldn't engage properly with the rim, and would start to creep up at reasonable pressure. Fortunately, I caught it before riding them and my local bike shop was able to talk the Merry Sales rep into replacing them.
Is it possible that this might be happening? On Sunday, March 9, 2014 10:19:06 AM UTC-7, Nick Worthington 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
