Had this great stroke of luck on my ride yesterday. The positive is the wheel was miraculously saved. But is the tire ruined?
EDIT: For info, I run them with TPU tubes, not tubeless.
by TheMisterZ
Had this great stroke of luck on my ride yesterday. The positive is the wheel was miraculously saved. But is the tire ruined?
EDIT: For info, I run them with TPU tubes, not tubeless.
by TheMisterZ
12 Comments
Looks like it’s still there to me.
I’d recommend putting a tube in it before you try riding on it again though.
Yikes! I would replace the tyre… lucky rim!
Outer wall puncture is fixable. Sidewall is harder. You might be able to apply a patch to the inside, but it might be too close to the bead.
I’d replace the tyre.
Btw, I have the same bike. Its nice isn’t it?
I’d take the G one R if I was you. I switched out my G one RS for the R rather quickly and I liked it better off road. Unless you tend to ride champagne gravel mostly offcourse.
You are very lucky to have an intact rim! Less than a millimeter from dissaster. Sidewall holes close to the bead is hard to fix. The sidewalls are thin and chances are it open over time when plugged.
The sidewall one can be fatal, but you could patch it on the inside and put it on the rear.
Take a picture with measurements, if it changes, throw it away.
The sidewall got hit. That tire is done.
Replace the tire and console yourself with the fact that you came within millimetres of needing a new wheel or a rim at a minimum.
Millimeters away from getting really expensive! I‘d change it just to be sure
Yes, it’s _GOne_… It used to be GOne RS, now it’s ultra low pressure GOne Ultrabite.
But not to be a troll only: 2 holes and one very close to bead = straight to recycle yard. I wouldn’t even try to fix it with patches, let alone sealant or plugs or anything like that.
happened to me too, sidewall damage means its mostly gone, you can be lucky the rim is not gone too. you can add a tireshoe i think its called. thats a large patch you stick on the inside and inflate a new tube. that saved my ass when iu was in the middle of the black forest in germany and my sidewall exploded. but they are not a permanent fix.
General note. I really don’t understand the “obsession” I often see with trying to salvage tires. Unless they’re new (value loss ) or you’re competitive a new tire costs 30/40 bucks. The amount of work required to safely patch something like that is it worth the cost especially since the risk is that you crash at high speeds and damage your multiple hundreds if not thousands worth of bike ?
I understand if it’s a genuine question to leant the art, but practically speaking with 40bucks and ten minutes you’ve solved all your problems