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TOP POSTED Eric R, Actually, you are both helpful. You tell us, good to know, OEM book knowledge, based on a large base line of experience. smile. Eric G gives us 'set your hair on fire' experience. I thought the Icelanders use ether or charcoal lighter fluid. shrug. so much for stuff you learn on the travel channel. shrug. Anyway, Both of your suggestions are useful. Let the reader decide how much risk they are willing to take. Forgive me if I move away from the tire while it is inflated to 80psi...which is another reason to be wearing those pesky eye protections, even while inflating a tire. sigh. which I am woefully negligent to wear sometimes...but age has had a way of curing that as well by making be wear trifocals. but I digress.... Just like NASA: we now have, and now have two data points, both based on experience (perhaps learned from bad things happening) to make a judgement if we want to seat at 35psi or at some other pressure. It is always nice when it works out, 'just like the book' suggests; which is also true for my Sunday, OEM book as well. Eric G- IRT to your comment about K270 not seating at DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Rickel" wrote:

> > Sorry, only trying to help. > > Eric > > -------Original Message------- > > From: E.L. Green > Date: 9/28/2008 11:17:59 PM > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Blow out! > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Eric Rickel"

wrote:

> > The beads are made of a single strand of high tensile wire wound > around a > > chuck" of the appropriate size many times. > > For Gripsters I seem to recall that it was multiple wires woven

around

> the core. Bead failure on a motorcycle tire is much more dangerous > than bead failure on an automotive tire, thus motorcycle tire beads > tend to be built sturdier with more redundancy. That said, you *can* > stretch or break the bead wires if you use enough force. As the guy > above obviously did . > > > the wrong time. Oh, and as I posted earlier, NEVER inflate an > unseated tire > > to more than 35 PSI. > > Err, I'd never have *any* tire seated on my KLR if I followed that > dictum. Even the tires with the soggiest easiest to seat beads like > the Kenda 270 generally require around 45PSI to seat. This is > especially silly with an Avon Gripster, which is rated at 44PSI cold > inflation pressure (i.e., up to 50PSI operating pressure). This

isn't

> some pathetic Goodyear automotive tire that blows out when you

exceed

> 32PSI. You have to really work at it to blow out an Avon Gripster, > this is a very sturdy tire. Which is why it is a PITA to seat the > thing, the bead is extremely stiff as are the sidewalls, and they

just

> don't want to move. > > Motorcycle tires are not car tires. Motorcycle tires have a rounded > profile, not a flat profile like car tires, and they don't behave

the

> same way as car tires. > > > Eric (mounted tires for 7 years and built them for 27 years for > Goodyear ) > > Given what you said about seating pressure, you'd probably crap in > your britches about what us off-roaders do when we got one of our

Jeep

> tires where the bead has gone unseated because a rock bashed a hole

in

> it and we just plugged the hole with some gummy worm plugs. Hint: > Gasoline and a match. I can see you cringin' through these here > intertubes as I type . Oh, Goodyear MTR's are great offroadin' > tires. Tough as all get-out. Wouldn't recommend driving that > plugged-and-blown-to-h*** tire on pavement, but if you're on the

side

> of a mountain and jackin' up the Jeep to put your spare on just

ain't

> happenin', it sure is nice having the ability to do something like

that...

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