Others might be, but the ones they knew of and rode were not like tubulars. Theirs just stretched over and popped into therim. > So they're not glued, like sew-ups? > > > They said the tire heats up on > >long, fast downhills because of the frame wobbling badly, and as the tire > >heats up, it doesn't need to stretch much to come off the rim they said. > > If anything, it might be > >centrifugal force, plus the wobble, that helped the warmed up tire > >come off the rim. > > I can see where they might not be all that stiff in the steer axis, > with the long, light forks. > I was thinking that the large wheel was catching a lot of air and > flapping in its own turbulence like a stop sign in the wind. > > Ray The main thing they said that was the problem was the frame was small/light and would develope pedal induced wobbling. ============================================================ This is the Python Mailinglist at freelists.org Listmaster: Jürgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx To unsubscribe send an empty mail to python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. ============================================================