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Whilst sitting in storage, my commuter bike appears to have been attacked by tiny ninjas. Am I correct in assuming this is well beyond safe repair?
I'd bin that, but mainly cos it's skinwall. 🤢🤮
Cheers. Could have been worse, have you seen the other colours Gravelkings come in? I think they've done it to convince the naysayers that skinwalls are the way forwards by comparison.
Lol, possibly!.
Have a look at the inside, if it's only small, I'd possibly consider using a mushroom plug, but it looks goosed mate.
Depends how new/expensive the tyre is and how stingy/handy/bothered you are about saving it.
You can sew it up with dental floss and it'll be fine for a good while. I've done this with a nearly new tubeless tyre, patched up the inside with a big puncture repair patch and it held air tubeless no issues.
don't know what pressure you're using though, it's obviously not going to work as well at higher pressures. my tubeless sewing repair efforts have been on 2" and up mtb tyres.
Worth a try I reckon. I repaired a slash at least that size in an exo minion. Bought some linen thread, leather needle and a tractor tube patch and vulcanising solution. Cost about £12 in total but figured it was worth a try. A bit of sewing and glueing and it's held up great and is still holding air fine months later. I put a normal bike patch over the stitching on the outside of the tyre too just to be safe. Up to you if you can be bothered putting this much effort into it, but I figured it was worth a try to save the cost of a new tyre.
Is it just the rubber case, or damaged the threads below? Looks like threads have gone the way it's bulging a bit, if not you could glue the rubber and I'd rather have it on the back than the front. Depends on how expensive a replacement is.
Cheers all, they're about 30 quid, I'm not going to risk it even though I only run about 40psi max (yeah, I think the bead may be compromised). When all this madness had died down I'll happily post it to anyone who's be happy to use it, in return for a small donation to Refuge.
I'm pretty tight, but if the carcass is damaged and not just the rubber for 30 quid I'd not want to have to walk to work or home if it failed on me.