Is this tyre done for?

[PK99]

With that sort of damage, for me at least, it's a case of fix out on the road, ride home carefully and ditch for a new one!

 

[helston90]

I would down grade it to my pub/shopper bike and stick a new shiny something on my commuter/ leisure bike where reliability is more important.

 

[young Ed]

I would down grade it to my pub/shopper bike and stick a new shiny something on my commuter/ leisure bike where reliability is more important.

you don't value getting to the pub to get a pint important?
of course i don't but i know many that do value it immensely
Cheers Ed

 

[DCLane]

A patch on the inside and it'll be OK. Or rather, I'd use it. But then I ride anything!

 

[Profpointy]

If you've had a repeat puncture in same place -then there's your answer.

Whilst I'd certainly have give it a go as you have, a poster above is probably about right saying if you're asking the question, you already know the answer

 

[Thegreatthor]

not sure TBH, but my i ask what caused this?
Cheers Ed

I think it was just a stone.

 

[Yorksman]

Console yourself with the fact that I just put a £120 tyre on my car, picked up a screw which put ever such a small hole in the reinforcing fabric of the tyre meaning I had to spend another £120. However bad you feel, I feel worse.

I once had my motorbike serviced and picked up a screw in their yard which ruined the tyre. At least they had the decency to fit a new tyre free.

We need more people sweeping the streets, yards and garages.

 

[ColinJ]

A mechanic in a bike shop in Melbourne told me that using super glue would do the job, (depending on the size/depth of a split/hole).

It worked for me and I did another 1,100 km to Adelaide with no problems.

Whereas my superglue tyre repair could have spread me all over a Spanish mountainside!

 

[Racing roadkill]

I've been fired into a ditch, when a repaired tyre split to pieces, before. If anything damages my tyres visibly (split or hole bigger than a thumbtack) I replace it. It's not worth the risk, for less than 50 quid.

 

[Globalti]

If you can see broken ends of carcass threads in the hole it's time to bin it. A hole with no thread damage can be fixed by patching inside but I'd put the tyre on the back wheel.

 

[Alun]

Replace it and the tube, before it goes!
It won't fail outside your house, but when you are going downhill at 30 mph in the dark miles from home, fact!

 

[Profpointy]

Replace it and the tube, before it goes!
It won't fail outside your house, but when you are going downhill at 30 mph in the dark miles from home, fact!

And it'll be raining and you'll have forgotten your pump, and your bus money

 

[sidevalve]

And it'll be raining and you'll have forgotten your pump, and your bus money

Assuming you don't get a lift from the nice people in the white van to the nearest A&E dept. For the price of a tyre ?