| Re: Airplane travel with bicycles
Beaker Wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:54:01 +1100, Dominic Sansom quoth
>
> > I had two tubes blow on separate occasions while flying. Both were o
> > road bikes (never had a problem with lower pressure MTBs) and the
> wer
> > inflated over 110psi
> > I now make sure I deflate all tubes when I fly
>
> That's quite odd, since the change in tire vs. outside air pressur
> difference has to be less than 14PSI...probably only 4-6PSI
>
> bkr
Odd?... I thought so too at the time of the first blow out. So I di
some research and like you say the difference should be no more tha
one atmosphere (15psi) so the next time I flew I left the tubes at ful
pressure... and one blew again. Weak tubes? Coincidence ? Who knows..
but the hassle of changing tubes at the start of a cycling holiday
twice, made me a confirmed deflater
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Dominic Sanso
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