Its not clear whether you are saying that the pressure in the hold is lower
is untrue
or that that they would pop under lower pressure.
If the pressure is lower and you have inflted then to the max recommended
pressure then they are more likely to pop.
It is also unclear whether you are worried about the just the tire/tupe
popping and requireing replacement(s) and possible insureance claims.
Or whether the tire popping might damage the plane and cause it to
crash, destroying the bike and your own life.
Why not sneak into the luggage hold and inflate your tires to twice the
maximum pressure just to prove how clever you are?
If the plane does nose dive you can rest assured your were not responsible!
I cannot recall a type bursting ever bringing down concord for instance as
it says
in the manufactures data that that cannnot happen.
And of course a planes type is almost certainly inflated to a lower pressure
than a bikes tyre, as car tyres (which are bigger) are.
"Clive George" <
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> Well, we all know that the ostensible reason, that the pressure in the
hold
> is lower so the tyre might pop is a crock of ****.
>
> What about deflating them so if it's badly packed in the hold there's less
> chance of something wearing through the tyre and making it go pop? (I
> suppose the first question is which is more likely to suffer such wear - a
> hard or soft tyre?)
>
> cheers,
> clive
>
>