Puncture damage

Frank pole

Got a puncture last night - shard of glass, it's split the tyre a bit

Just wondering is this tyre a write off?

coopsman1

I would keep using it.

I have some nasty cuts in my gatorskins and so far I have done 1,200 miles without major problems.Only had 3 punctures in the past year.

I usually pop a bit of superglue on the inside of the tyre just to fill the hole. Either that or super glue a small piece of innertube or something if your really concerned

45rpm

+1 for superglue, works a treat. but does sometimes leak through and glues the tube to your tyre, ha

Pep

no

Mad Roadie

try applying a patch on the inside of the tyre?

t5nel

Mad Roadie wrote:

try applying a patch on the inside of the tyre?

+1 I have done this with the self adhesive type of patch and it seems to stop water/grit getting and the innertube herniating out

marcusjb

As others have said - it will be fine - put a small boot on the inside of the tyre (little bit of card, another bit of inner tube or whatever - just to stop the inner tube trying to escape through the little hole.

I've never tried the superglue trick - might give it a go at some point.

It takes quite a lot to actually write a tyre off - most glass shards will hopefully only create a small hole in the inner carcass of the tyre, so nothing to worry about unless it's a hole of, I'd say, more than 5-10mm in the inside of the tyre - and even then that could be booted to get you home for sure (just not sure I'd want to ride on it much after that).

This only applies to holes/gashes in the top surface of the tyre - it doesn't take much to write a tyre off with a side wall gash, and beyond booting to get you home, a side wall gash is almost always time to write the tyre off.