[Spridgets] Bugeye/Frogeye Club..... Wire Wheels and Tires

Tue Sep 6 18:57:53 MDT 2016

And one of the top Jag shops just uses a bunch of duct tape as a spoke protector.  Lots of it.

No problems after hundreds of miles.

Lester

> On Sep 6, 2016, at 2:06 PM, 'Vincent M. King' kingvm at king-designs.com [bugeye] <bugeye at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Thanks for the input!  I was running 35 psi, but good point.  Hopefully I will learn more tomorrow when I am with the shop mgr when he removes the tires from the rims.  I have also received some good input Steven Christiansen that I will follow up on.  If it is something definite, I will make sure to let the group know.
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> Vince King
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> From: Harley Welch [mailto:rudgeman at earthlink.net <mailto:rudgeman at earthlink.net>] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 02:40 PM
> To: bugeye at yahoogroups.com <mailto:bugeye at yahoogroups.com>; kingvm at king-designs.com <mailto:kingvm at king-designs.com>
> Subject: Re: Bugeye/Frogeye Club..... Wire Wheels and Tires
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> I got new tires a few years back and had a similar experience. An employee at the tire shop  had failed to remove a foil sticker in the INSIDE of the tire and after some tire/tube movement under driving conditions a corner of the sticker would poke up and start working it's way through the tube. I got a fair bit more mileage before the flats occurred, but I run my tire pressures at 32 psi. If you're running lower pressures (i.e. what's spec'd in the owner's manual...) it could occur much sooner.
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>> From: kingvm at king-designs.com [bugeye] <mailto:kingvm at king-designs.com%20[bugeye]>
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>> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2016 7:14 PM
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>> Subject: Bugeye/Frogeye Club..... Wire Wheels and Tires
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>> I need the voice of experience.  I have wire wheels on my BE.  But I have been having a very bad time with flat tires.  I have 5 new tires on 5 wire wheel rims purchased from Moss.  Out of the 5 tires 4 of them have gone flat at some point.  This past weekend you may remember that I was going on the covered bridge tour here in Ga.  On Saturday, I had 3 flat tires within 45 miles.  My rear driver side went flat.  I put the spare on and went 30 miles and the spare went flat.  I called emergency road side service and the tow operator inflated the spare and we headed down the road to a shop.  5 miles down the road the spare went flat again, to be expected, but when I pulled over the passenger side rear tire was flat too.  3 flat tires.
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>> Anyway, I am going to meet with the shop here in town who has been fixing my tires.  In all cases we put in new tubes except for 1 and they patched it (I think).  I do not know what they did when installing the tubes but the manager is going to let me be there on Wed to see if we can figure out what it happening. 
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>> I am sure that some of you have experience with the wire wheels.  What should I look for?  Is there a list of 'watchouts' that you can give me to work from?  
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>> Here is some info about my setup. 
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>> Wire Wheels from Moss part# 454-685
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>> Tires: Michelin Defender Radial 1757013
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>> Not sure if they are using the rubber liner over the spokes but will find out on Wed.
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>> Thanks for any help!
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>> Vince King
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>> Leesburg, Ga
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>> 59 Bugeye (13137)
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