I often travel by train for business. Simply because I can still type on the computer on the rails and often manage a day at the office that way. The rails also give me the idea of low-energy gliding. I often think of the rubber tires on my car and how the rubber tread and the road form a frictional partnership. And the flatter the tire, the stronger the friction. Friction not only crumbles the rubber compound of the tread, not only slowly destroys the tread and the sides of the tire, it also generates heat. Sometimes so much that there is a risk of fire. This can only happen to a train wheel if it does not rotate easily and frictional heat is generated as a result. It takes a long time for a train wheel to burst - and it has happened before - a rubber tire on a car can burst more easily, much more quickly. This is another reason why a tire pressure monitoring system works wonders. A retrofittable electronic system such as the TireMoni TPMS warns if the tire overheats or loses pressure. This avoids the destruction of the tire and, more importantly, the system can be used to keep the rolling resistance and thus the friction in a safe and friendly range.
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TireMoni, like the ADAC, recommends short metal valves.
If it overheats, they simply open the roof: www.ccfreunde.de