Tufo Gravel Sppedero are FAST, grippy on asphalt, hardpack, and most smoothish surfaces. However, they don't like gnarly.
by uzuzab
Tufo Gravel Sppedero are FAST, grippy on asphalt, hardpack, and most smoothish surfaces. However, they don't like gnarly.
by uzuzab
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The tyre died on me on km 59,88 of the ride. Luckily enough, I was almost home, so I only had to carry my bike for 1,5 km.
That’s a very neat job on a huge gash, you confident it’ll hold?
Wow, I’m impressed. Does this work? I haven’t seen it done before. I had to toss a tire a while back because it had this strange super clean slice on the sidewall that followed the curvature of the wheel. It’s almost like there was something really sharp on the fork that rubbed against the tire. Idk. But you just reminded me of it 😊
Throw it away…not worth the risk
Chicks dig scars.
I’ve done this on a tire as well and it held fine, though I did a bit more to ensure it held.
I used wax thread, applied shoe goo to the outside, and put a patch on the inside to make sure it held and it did.
I don’t know if the thread on its own is enough.
I’ve done it many times at the thread area, sidewalls deform a lot while riding so its a bit more unfortunate, but it should hold! I’d go for a cross stitch personally (and dental floss for looks 😉 ) and send it
I think Park Tools makes a Kevlar boot with a adhesive backing
Impressive. Neat. I’ve never seen someone fix a tyre this way
I would throw a boot on the inside and some tire repair adhesive on top of the outside stitching
I had a brand new pair of Pirelli Cinurato’s (H, 40c) setup tubeless on my bike. I had put them on the day before a 3-day, 150mi Bikepacking trip. 30mi into the first day, my rear tire got slashed on an exposed bit of broken glass.
For some reason, somebody randomly had a spare tire in one of their bags? So I reluctantly put that on, but refused to trash my own tire. It was easily 1-1.5” long, right where the sidewall met the tread, and cut clean through.
When I got home, I cleaned up, scrubbed all the dried Orange Seal off of everything. Once it was clean, I used a Park Tool tire boot on the inside, and then double stitched the slash, making an X instead of a Z. I think I did 8 stitches over that 1.5”.
That tire lasted me another year of consistent riding in every condition imaginable. Once I swapped for a new set, I hung it up on my wall. I keep thinking someday I’ll make a bag out of it or something.
Trash it. Can’t see the point on riding something like this, unless you are in the middle of nowhere and that is all you have.
That’s a pretty cool repair. Thanks for sharing.
Hmm I just swapped from Thundero’s to Thundero’s HD after the former got way too holey, your post is not helping my expectations much.
That should hold. Looks exactly like how we used to repair tubulars back in the day. The Velox repair kit came with linen thread and a triangular needle for sewing up the tire casing after patching the latex tube inside.
I ran mine without issue at RO3… Lucky
Respect for repairing it, I would chuck it immediately. Hopefully it holds up okay