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Old 02-17-2012, 04:04 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Sven7 View Post
I'll give you that mounting them isn't the safest thing to do. But driving on them is not dangerous. I haven't heard of even one instance of a stretched tire breaking a bead or whatever. People do this all the time and have been for decades (bosozoku).
You may be correct on that.
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I will bet you there are more tire failures from under-inflation and other user errors than stretching.
Totally agree, but I'll take your bet one further and suggest running a stretched tire under-inflated is worse than an under-inflated standard sanctioned mounting.

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