• My apologies, I had not read the thread till the end, maybe I stopped reading when it was about gluing tubs on clincher rims, Haha (no offense guys!)...
    Anyway, as I did not read till the end, I missed these two precious posts...

    You need a steel beaded clincher tyre ( they don't flex so much as the folding kevlar beaded modern types apparently).
    And they rims are only rated up to 100psi max.
    Get a nice old pair of michellin dynamics from chain reaction for about £18 a pair.
    I run this combo with no problems after having a gatorskin blow off whilst standing still (at about 120psi.)
    Col.

    One very good trick to help your tyres stay on the rims is to use two rim tapes - this makes it much more difficult for the bead of the tyre to sink into the well of the rim at one place which then allows another part of the tyre to pop off the rim. You can also build up the thickness of your existing rim tape with insulation tape. This trick works time and time again and was the only way to get the tyres to stay on the rims of my Kingcycle when the tyres were inflated to 90psi...

    So exploding gatorskin on hookless gatorskins is not something new... When the tyre exploded it was infated at 95-100 (I know for sure because when I took the bike that morning, it had been sleeping in the shed for a while and I inflated front and back... After explosion I took instinctly some pressure off the rear tyre, that was a good idea then... I am now using the bike with the same "unappropriate" gatorskin, at 80 psi... I might try Hilary's trick of adding more rim tape, this is genious...

    If anyone is interested in a pair of gatorskin, 27, for their wheels (with hooks), maybe we could find a deal... I would then go for Spuds recommendation ("good old michelins", or similar "Rigid" tyres...

    Szia

    Loic

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