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  • Speed limit for tyres ? Genuine question
  • simmy
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    I will probably get ripped apart for this but genuine question do Bike Tyres have a Speed or Load rating like Car tyres.

    I’ve heard of pros getting upto 70 mph, the fastest I’ve been is 43 mph on the MTB so just wondered ?

    bencooper
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    Not officially, as they don’t have to have Type Approval – I got into a big argument with an idiot at the DfT about electric bikes because he thought they all had to have type-approved tyres like mopeds.

    bland
    Full Member

    I had a specialized one delaminate at over 50 coming down from windy hill and it kept catching on the forks on the road bike, cacked myself

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    ampthill
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    My hunch would be that bike tyres don’t build up heat in the same way at speed

    jimthelad
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    I once read about the guys doing drafted speed records on the salt flats, hitting 150+mph. They had to use tyres that had been made specially for high speed solar cars IIRC. This was due to normal bikes tyres de-laminating.

    johnners
    Free Member

    I got into a big argument with an idiot at the DfT about electric bikes because he thought they all had to have type-approved tyres like mopeds

    Why would it be so idiotic if they did?

    Edric64
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    Because lecy bikes are only made to do 15mph ,ie half sloped speed

    johnners
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    Oh, I thought they were quicker than that. Not that an old lady’s ever overtaken me on one, no sir, definitely not!

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