Glass in tyre
jopari
Posts: 84
So, question for you forumites:
I punctured the other day (the day after I swapped bags without transferring spare tube!) and when looking for the offending hole I easily spotted a small shard of glass in tyre.
I then went round and checked the rest of the tyre and it was littered with small cuts which hid small shards of glass.
Questions are:
1) Is this likely to be a build-up over a long time and I was just unlucky that this one punctured my gatorskins?
2) Do you often check for this sort of "puncture waiting to happen"?
G
I punctured the other day (the day after I swapped bags without transferring spare tube!) and when looking for the offending hole I easily spotted a small shard of glass in tyre.
I then went round and checked the rest of the tyre and it was littered with small cuts which hid small shards of glass.
Questions are:
1) Is this likely to be a build-up over a long time and I was just unlucky that this one punctured my gatorskins?
2) Do you often check for this sort of "puncture waiting to happen"?
G
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Incidentally, some people will talk of replacing their tyres when the start to puncture a lot. This is what happens if you don't excavate the glass. The glass gets constantly pushed into the kevlar bead until eventually it goes through and punctures the tyre.
If you clean the tyres out, this doesn't happen and your tyres last much longer - plus you don't go through the 'lots of punctures' stage (though, as you found, you still can have the odd puncture if you are unlucky).
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No probs here with Durano and Durano S fwiw.
Question... When you take them out, do you use anything to fill the gap such as a small dab of superglue?
Felt VR5 - "winter"
Trek Triton Singlespeed - "commuter"
+1. I did fill one cut last year - that was about 5mm long and quite quite wide but I only tried to glue it once and the glue made little difference (aside from that there was now something hard and sharp in the split that I had put in the tyre (ie the glue)!! I finally binned the tyre a couple of weeks ago - by then the split was 2mm wide and I could see the inner tube starting to bulge through the casing! I'd probably done a good 3000 miles on the tyre since gluing.