Replace or repair?
- Thread starter lozcs
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HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Is that the front (looks like forks in the pic) I'd move it to the back and add superglue to the hole, it doesn't look like a showstopper to me.
Peter Armstrong
Über Member
Ive got loads like that, has'nt been an issue on 120 psi and no puchures in a few hunderd miles.
Minotier
Veteran
- Location
- The Flat Side of South Yorkshire.
Would be more concerned if it was on the sidewall. I would go with HLab and chuck it on the back, always less catastrophic if it does let go.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
I have a dozen or so of those on my duranos.
Take it off see if it penetrates to the inside, if it does and If the hole is small a patch will secure it, if its bigger then a tyre boot maybe better.
If its so big that under pressure the tube can be seen...bin it.
I had 4 blow outs including a shotgun blow out when my set developed a large enough hole for the tyre to herniate through, trouble was, it was too dark to see at the time. Someone on here described how the cut had gone along or across the wires in the tyre, making it more dodgy, especially under inflation. I still don't know how to tell the difference.
Anyhow, I'd bought the tyre a week earlier and had to bin it.
A whole winter later and despite a dozen such scars and only two visits in months and months, appx 500 miles a month
Either way, as others have said, i'd swap it to the rear
Take it off see if it penetrates to the inside, if it does and If the hole is small a patch will secure it, if its bigger then a tyre boot maybe better.
If its so big that under pressure the tube can be seen...bin it.
I had 4 blow outs including a shotgun blow out when my set developed a large enough hole for the tyre to herniate through, trouble was, it was too dark to see at the time. Someone on here described how the cut had gone along or across the wires in the tyre, making it more dodgy, especially under inflation. I still don't know how to tell the difference.
Anyhow, I'd bought the tyre a week earlier and had to bin it.
A whole winter later and despite a dozen such scars and only two visits in months and months, appx 500 miles a month
Either way, as others have said, i'd swap it to the rear
