Amazing the punishment tyres will take, but more amazing is how some people take them, and their braking systems, for granted....paying someone to polish the paintwork till it gleams going to the trouble of claying etc, sterilize the interior till you could use it as an operating theatre...yet wouldn't dream of closely inspecting their tyres, and Heaven forbid look at the brakes till they either fail the MOT or start grinding.
Used to be a Berlingo van that turned right at a roundabout around the same time i went to work so saw it regularly, he'd take that 30mph roundabout at approx 50mph, the NSF tyre was probably at a 6" and 45 degree lean inside of the wheel, how it didn't come off the rim is still a mystery.
Modern tubeless wheels have for many years had raised ridges just inside the bead seats helping to fix them in place and make initial inflation easier (by the wheel being effectively 2" narrower to the ridge), you might have heard the tyre pop twice when you've been at the fitters, that was the partly inflated tyre slipping over those ridges when being inflated...part of the reason its such a hard job breaking the bead seal when its time to take the tyres off.
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