BICYCLE TYRE CARE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 282, 27 August 1942, Page 2

BICYCLE TYRE CARE

Users Advised To Inflate Hard

Steps to ensure that great care ifexercised in keeping bicycle tyres inflated hard have been taken by several business houses who employ boys. as cycle messengers or for light deliveries. Post and telegraph offices throughout the Dominion are impressing on their messengers the need for inflating tyres bare and, the avoidance of wear-and-tear through excessive braking. It is stated that the greatest cause of tyre failure is not the wearing out of the tread, but the breaking-up of the interior linen fabric, caused by undue flexing when the tyre is not inflated enough. It is the custom of most manufacturers to have the words "inflate hard" moulded on their tyres, and the question of whether the words could be made more prominent was referred in Auckland on Tuesday to the New Zealand tyre manufacturers, Reid Rubber Mills. lhe managing director, Mr. G. C. M. I' el y» stated that the engraving for the mouid was copied from a standard British tyre, blit in view of the necessity for impressing the desirability of hard inflation the firm would certainly consider making the warning more prominent when any alteration of the mould was required. The firm had already circularised all dealers, asking them to impress on customers that a cycle tyre was a comparatively frail thing when soft.