What`s happened to my MTB tyre?

antfly
antfly Posts: 3,276
edited June 2010 in The bottom bracket
I turned it inside out and now it won`t go back to it`s proper shape.
Is it dead? Have I killed it?
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  • Dunk_911
    Dunk_911 Posts: 239
    chances are you turned it back the wrong way. It will probably be OK but it depends on if the wire gets kinked :wink:
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    I should say it`s a folding tyre and I can`t get it back on the wheel.
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  • Flasheart
    Flasheart Posts: 1,278
    Just get on your road bike ...it DOESN'T matter mate :wink:
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  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Did you turn it 'back', in the opposite direction to the way you originally turned it?
    If so, it's terminal... Shoot it!
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    That must be what happened.
    I`m sad to report that despite my best efforts to unkink the wire it had to be put down. :cry:
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  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Get a nice shoe box, add some appropriate decoration, then bury it in your back garden...

    RIP...
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  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    eBay?
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    I blame Wiggle.
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  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Spray it white, nail it to your wall and tell the grandchildren that it's the jaws of a shark that you bagged in the Canaries. Add a suitably unbelievable story reagarding saving the tour guide after he fell out of the boat and the number of camels he offered you as thanks for saving his life. :wink:
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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Sounds like the bead has twisted in the casing. A nightmare with wire bead, but can be rescued by untwisting the tire in the opposite way to which you twisted it.

    Folding tires however................. I suspect you're screwed, sorry :(
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  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    ..moun...tain...bik..e...? BURN THE WITCH!

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  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    It may be possible to unbend the kink in the wire bead with the judicious use of a pair of pliers. But once done check that the bead isn't breaking away from the sidewall (high speed blowouts are not fun, I know...)
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Bunneh wrote:
    ..moun...tain...bik..e...? BURN THE WITCH!

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