Tires are built to withstand twice the rated maximum pressure. You won't get anywhere near that from a 7,000-ft ascent.
On Friday, August 1, 2014 3:30:27 AM UTC-4, Jim Bronson wrote: > > The next couple of days I will be driving from my home around 500 ft > altitude to over 7000 ft before returning to near sea level. > > I remember seeing yogurt containers in Santa Fe that were actually bulging > and it got me thinking that the same thing could happen with bike tires if > you departed lower elevation with near max pressure. So i was thinking of > airing my LoupLoups down to 40psi or so for the trip. > > Or is it unnecessary? > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
