[email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:00:26 -0700, jim beam
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> On Mar 28, 8:20 pm, jim beam <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> daniel wrote:
>>>>> Why does my bead keep popping out on my rear veloflex tire? I have
>>>>> never had this problem until today when it happened twice in two
>>>>> different spots on the rim. I have done nothing to the rear wheel
>>>>> recently...
>>>> check the tire beads and compare them to another brand. they should
>>>> have a good indent behind the bead where the rim hook goes. if not,
>>>> it's defective and you have grounds for return. i've seen this on kenda
>>>> tires.
>>> I have already been using the tires and have had no problems.
>> i didn't ask whether you'd used them, i asked whether you'd checked the
>> beads for the correct indent for the rim hook. some tire manufacturers
>> are inattentive to this detail, the bead is insufficiently formed, and
>> the tire blows off. do you want to figure the problem out, or do you
>> just want to complain about it?
>>
>>> Today I
>>> simply pumped them up as normal and it happened about 12 miles into
>>> the ride. odd?
>> if the bead is malformed, not in the least, no.
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> Why snarl?
>
> You're more likely to get cooperation and interesting details with
> less attitude.
it's not a snarl. i asked if he'd checked the tire to see if it had a
flaw that would cause his problem. but instead he returned to his start
point - being confounded as to why it would blow off.
need more explanation? /engineers/ think the following joke funny.
***
A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a
particularly slow group of golfers.
The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting
for 15 minutes!"
The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!"
The pastor said, "Hey here comes the greenskeeper. Let's have a word
with him."
"Hi George. Say what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow
aren't they?"
The greenskeeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind
firefighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire
last year, so we always let them play for free anytime."
The group was silent for a moment.
The pastor said, "That's so sad, I think I will say a special prayer for
them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist
buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them."
The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"
***
so, we got the effect part - let's address the cause.
>
> If the tire is new, then a malformed bead might be the explanation.
>
> But if the tire has been run without problems for a long time (I'm not
> sure this is the case, but that's what it sounded like to me), then
> what would cause the bead to change shape?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Fogel