On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:06 AM, Hank Wirtz wrote:
>> On Dec 3, 10:20 pm, Hank Wirtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Wire-bead Paselas are famous for blowing off the rim. Avoid them. >>> Get >>> the folders. The folders are fantastic tires. The wire-bead ones are >>> not. > On Dec 3, 10:42 pm, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> "Wire-bead Paselas are famous for blowing off the rim. Avoid them." >> >> We have sold and installed hundreds of wire-bead Paselas in the >> past 3 >> years. This reputation for blowing off rims has not been validated by >> our customers or in my personal riding experience with them. I find >> them generally true to nominal dimensions, within a mm or so. > Three of the four wire-bead ones I've bought (two in 700x28, one in > 26x1.75) have blown off their rims. with the 700s, it happened on two > different rims, a Torelli Master and an Ambrosio Evolution. The 26" > one was on a Campy Thorr. No other model of tire, wire or folding, has > done that to me before or since, and that counts 4 years of > professional wrenching in the late '80s. > > A 75% blow-off rate on that many tires, plus the numerous reports of > others in the Surly LHT group and RBT tells me that it's not bad luck > and it's not in my head. > > I'm glad your luck has been better, but I'm not riding a wire-bead > Pasela ever again. Like I say, love the folders. Like Jim I have had zero blow-offs with the wire-bead Paselas and, contrary to the current trend, I run tires at the maximum rated inflation at all times. Wire-bead Paselas are all I use now and have been for a couple of years. I am still using MA-2 rims on my 700C bikes, with the exception of a Velocity rim on one wheel, and Sun CR-16 and CR-18 rims on my 26" wheels. I wonder about your rims. Torelli rims were well-known for inadequate quality control with batches of them being undersized or oversized. Torelli's rims were made by Ambrosio, so it's possible that the quality control problems are present in both brands. I don't know about the Campy rims (my guess is that they are also made by Ambrosio rather than Campy buying the tooling to make their own, but that's just a guess with no facts to back it up). I do also recall there being an Asian tire maker that created some problems a couple of years ago when they made a batch of tires with the bead either longer or shorter by a couple of mm, but my recollection is vague and I can't remember if it was Panaracer nor whether it was folding bead or steel bead tires that were involved. Maybe there's someone here with a better memory than mine. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
