Tire tech: Meet Schwalbe Procore dual-chamber mountain bike tire system Regular mountain bike tires can be a bit of a compromise....If the air pressure is too high, the tire doesn’t have as wide or compliant of a gripping footprint on the ground, plus it bounces wildly off of things like roots and rocks. If the pressure is too low, however, pinch flats can occur when riding over those same obstacles, and tubeless tires can even get burped right off the rim. As a result, most cyclists keep their tires at a somewhere-in-between pressure that isn’t ideal for either grip or protection. Procore addresses this situation. Essentially, it allows cyclists to install a high-pressure inner tube (the blue thing in the photo), inside their existing tubeless tire. That tube doesnt take up all of the space inside, however – theres still an air space between it and the inside wall of the tire. For simplicity, Schwalbe refers to the tube as the inner chamber, and the space as the outer chamber. Video:
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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