Went out riding last night and just cleaned my bike this morning and noticed theres a thumb size slit in the sidewall on my rear tire, im running maxxis minions duel ply 2.35, its not really deep but u can see the fabric inside, is it worth getting a new tire or can i fix it or will it be ok? cheers!
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Will it be ok?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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can you see the innertube or has it just gone through the top rubber coating/first ply? If you can see the tube definitely replace.
Posted 1 year ago # -
That's the reason Super Glue was invented [probably]
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superglue won't help on a sidewall.
You can patch/stitch it though.
Posted 1 year ago # -
erm dont think you can see the innertube i think its just slit the sidewall its self
Posted 1 year ago # -
Gaffer on the inside's seen me right before...*
*some sort of disclaimer here, might have your face off etc...
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If you do try to repair it use dental floss to stitch.
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gaffer tape on the inside sounds a good idea, ill give that a go, hopefully its not gone all the way through as i said it just seems like a small slit on the top layer because u can see all the stitching on the inside of the " duel ply " ill take it off and have a look cheers
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I had a similar issue. As a temporary repair I gaffer taped a bit of old toothpaste tube into the inside of the tyre just in case and then whilst the tyre was inflated I put araldite across the tear as some protection. Ran the tyre for another couple of thousand kms without an issue.
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repair with rubber vulcanising solution. Its for rubber! Strangley, it seems to work quite well.
Posted 1 year ago #
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