I am attaching a lot of images of what automobile tire manufacturers have generally settled on after over a century of extensive research. Sure, one could use Mr. Tuffy liners, old bicycle tires, old tubes, slime and tubeless setups, but since we all have motors we can integrate the weight of this automobile tire technology into our ebikes and surely get less flats.
Implementing this idea is as easy as:
(1) obtaining a used street tire larger than your bicycle tire from your friendly neighborhood tire store,
(2) measuring a 1-4" strip around the middle of the used tire,
(3) cut your hoop with a drywall saw, sawzall, cutoff wheel, hacksaw, woodsaw, utility knife, steak knife, etc.
(4) cut the resulting hoop so that it becomes a strip, not a hoop. This cut is perpendicular to the circumference. It needs to expand outward when you inflate the tire. Make it too short and you have an unprotected segment. Make it too long and it will protrude into where your tube goes,
(5) To protect your tube from the "steel belted radial bicycle tire liner", put a Mr. Tuffy tire liner in between your tube and the new, thick tire liner. The Mr. Tuffy tire liners have one smooth, velvety side to keep your tube happy; the other side of a Mr. Tuffy tire liner has ridges to keep it centered.
I am waiting until I get another flat to try both tubeless and this, but of course now that I want to get a flat I am not getting one.
Ya gotta think that those steel belts would help!
Implementing this idea is as easy as:
(1) obtaining a used street tire larger than your bicycle tire from your friendly neighborhood tire store,
(2) measuring a 1-4" strip around the middle of the used tire,
(3) cut your hoop with a drywall saw, sawzall, cutoff wheel, hacksaw, woodsaw, utility knife, steak knife, etc.
(4) cut the resulting hoop so that it becomes a strip, not a hoop. This cut is perpendicular to the circumference. It needs to expand outward when you inflate the tire. Make it too short and you have an unprotected segment. Make it too long and it will protrude into where your tube goes,
(5) To protect your tube from the "steel belted radial bicycle tire liner", put a Mr. Tuffy tire liner in between your tube and the new, thick tire liner. The Mr. Tuffy tire liners have one smooth, velvety side to keep your tube happy; the other side of a Mr. Tuffy tire liner has ridges to keep it centered.
I am waiting until I get another flat to try both tubeless and this, but of course now that I want to get a flat I am not getting one.
Ya gotta think that those steel belts would help!
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