Quote Originally Posted by willtill View Post
...on a motorcycle; in the capacity that it was designed for? Meaning that they've experienced loss of air and the tire still gets them home, without any drama?

Just curious. If it'll get a car home... I'd think it would not self destruct on a motorcycle. Or would it... due to the difference to the way that the car tire sits on the motorcycle wheel's bead hump as instead of being locked in?

I offer this very good article again for review (we have seen it before on this forum) and a couple of pic's I took from it to illustrate my question:

http://www.goldwingfacts.com/forums/...-rim-tire.html





If a run flat car tire is locked into the wheel's rim, I can logically understand how it would still stay on the rim and the stiffer sidewalls would maintain enough tire structure. If they are not locked in (as on a motorcycle wheel) I would venture a hypothesis that the tire would eventually self destruct due to eventual lateral movement of the tire within the rim?
I rode home from work-6 miles-on my Michelin run flat without tire pressure. The valve stem (metal) went bad and I did not realize it at the time. I thought about going to the house and get my mounted MC tire and changing it in the parking lot but rode the bike around the parking lot a couple of times and it felt ok. I did not go much faster the 35-40 miles per hour. I did think the rear end felt squishy so I was careful. Got home, felt the tire and it was not over heated.

Not sure I would want to do it on the highway but I would go father than the 6 miles if conditions were right.