Call that a puncture?

[swee'pea99]

Check this out:

Just riding along minding me own bidniss and BANG! Never seen (or heard) nuthin' like it.

 

[potsy]

Blimey

what happened?

 

[NormanD]

Some sort of blade or sharp metal you've ridden over there maybe? ... I've never seen a puncture to that extent before

 

[Davidc]

Think it must be a blade - it looks like my tyre did after it was slashed by vandals.

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Faulty tyre?

 

[swee'pea99]

I had a pretty good look in the road, as you might imagine, but I couldn't see anything. Just suddenly blew up, for no apparent reason. Spooky...

 

[dan_bo]

belter! are there any nicks on the rim?

 

[Grasen]

a couple of years ago I had a nail go through my tire, tube AND rim
left a nice big hole in my rim - not every day that happens

 

[ianrauk]

it's a pretty clean cut isn't it?

 

[swee'pea99]

Nothing in the rim...and it definitely wasn't a cut - I'd had the bike in my back garden...no-one could have got at it. It's a mystery...

 

[accountantpete]

It's the wrong direction for a blade cut - send it back to the makers.

 

[photography27]

good job you wasnt speeding down hill!!!
that does look like a tyre fault, i would email the photo to the tyre manufacturer

 

[iendicott]

It does look like a bonding issue with the tyre and not a slash, personally I would take it back to the shop you bought it at and get them to raise this with the suppliers as thus might effect others as well.

 

[02GF74]

the angle and striaghtness looks suspiciousluy like the threads in the carcass are laid at; I would guess it is a trye fault as oppose to something external cutting it.

always good to get it back to the manufacturers otherwsie how will they know if they have a manufactring issue.


you were darn lucky you weren't doing 30 mpoh down a traffic infected hill!!