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THE LOW PRESSURE REVOLUTION

Staun Products' Internal BeadLock™ is creating a low tire pressure revolution, and I'll tell you why throughout. Words alone don’t do this product justice. Even if you don’t read on, take a look at the pictures. They are very impressive!

If you play in the dirt long enough, you will eventually encounter rim- , tire-, bead-related problems. Popping the beads off the rims is relatively commonplace. While playing and learning about sand years ago, I actually popped four beads at one time! I was side-hilling. I lost the two outside beads on the downhill side, and the two inside beads on the uphill side.

Another problem is spinning the tires on the rims. That results from too much traction and torque, and not enough friction between tire and rim due to low tire pressure. These annoyances are expected by the folks that regularly play on the Black Diamonds. Up until now, they counter these rim/tire/bead predicaments in several ways. However, Staun's BeadLock™ may make bead-related problems a thing of the past at any pressure.

The Black Diamond guys may (1) install conventional bead locks or (2) sacrifice performance by running higher "low" pressure than they really want. They may also (3) choose to live with rim/tire spin and get the wheels rebalanced every so often. For intermittent air "burping," they usually just (4) add air along the trail and get used to reseating the beads when they completely knock 'em off.

Staun Products' pneumatic Internal BeadLocks keep the beads in place and tightly secure the tires to the rims. This means that you can run exactly the low pressure you want, and as our tests proved, with no fear of popping a bead or spinning the tire on the rim. Isn't that worthy of being called a low pressure revolution? And not to beat it to death, are you aware that there are very light weight competition rock crawlers that run zero, repeat, zero PSI in their tires! They, along with every guy who owns 16.5” wheels, need a low pressure revolution!

Staun Internal BeadLocks provide a way to lock both the inside and outside tire beads to the rim. No special rims are required. Staun has sizes to fit everything from 9 inch ATV/Quad rims to behemoth 19 inchers!

DESCRIPTION

A fully LOAD RATED inflated tire stands a 99% chance of having none of the problems described above. Period! In other words, when properly inflated, the tires do their job perfectly. That is because high (street) pressure securely locks the tire bead against the rim and eliminates air loss and tire/rim spin. The bead/air loss thing appears to be borne out by the roll tests I've conducted. I've side tilted 5,000 pound 4Xs, to greater than 45°, with fully inflated tires, and never unseated a tire bead or lost any air (see Figure 2 and insert).

Wouldn't it be perfect if we could apply high pressure right at the tire's beads, independent of the pressure in the balance of the tire? Staun's Internal BeadLock™ does exactly that. It is literally a specially reinforced mini-tube right next to the bead. By the way, I use "wheel" to mean the tire (rubber part) mounted on the rim (metal part).

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