cut in tyre - do I need to swap it out?

alihisgreat
alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
edited January 2013 in Workshop
Noticed a small, but quite wide cut in my Giant PR3 tyre yesterday: (sorry for the crap picture)


8355309040_4ef54ee049.jpg -> maybe looks slightly worse in the flesh than on camera.


I only really had the old PR3 on there so I didn't wear out the GP4000s out on the turbo...do you think its necessary to swap the tyre round for road riding?


(on the plus side it looks like the PR3's did their job and stopped something quite vicious from giving me a puncture)

Comments

  • DT1999
    DT1999 Posts: 17
    Uses super glue to fill the cut it works for me
  • bikeit65
    bikeit65 Posts: 1,001
    + 1 for superglue
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  • cycleclinic
    cycleclinic Posts: 6,865
    Replace the tyre when the carcass is comprimised in some way. Until then the tyre is good.
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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    That's barely a nick - after a winter of riding on flint-strewn lanes your tyres will probably look like they were fitted by Edward Scissorhands.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    I'm not sure that there is really any point in superglue. It isn't flexible so all you are doing by putting superglue in is adding something sharp to the tyre! All glue can do is stop the split from growing and I've not really seen any evidence of that happening - I bin my tyres because I've worn them out and not because old cuts have grown. And as Monty says, after a while the thing will be covered in cuts anyway.
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,542
    tis but a scratch

    ignore it, i've got about 20 of those in my tyres (gp4000s), no problem

    no need to do anything unless the tyre is bulging or the tube is trying to poke through the hole
    my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny
  • smoggysteve
    smoggysteve Posts: 2,909
    Find a rubber based glue so it stretches with the tyre. I've fixed worse and had no problems.
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    If I worried about nicks like that I'd be a nervous wreck. Don't worry about it.
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  • bikeit65
    bikeit65 Posts: 1,001
    Surely the glue in your puncture repair kit will do the job?
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  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    Do you lot really dick about supergluing tiddly little cracks like that? Jesus Christ.
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  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    Thanks for the advice guys just wanted to check since I haven't had a cut that wide and deep before.
  • philbar72
    philbar72 Posts: 2,229
    Wouldn't worry, i've got tyres with the vectran showing ( the stuff that allows your tyre to deal with the stuff on the roads). bike still rides just fine....