Made it down the driveway and up the county road just a little bit, and noticed a strange bumping feeling coming from the rear, got off and found this. I didn't know a bicycle tire would ever break a belt/wire, looks like that is what happened? I have biked on and off for a long time, have never seen this before.
by joyisstrength
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Sir, that looks pressed by a bumper against a garage wall maybe. “External forces”
Ate an egg
Check the rim?
Most tires don’t bend if the rim isn’t also bent
But yeah, looks like external forces
Scoliosis
It decided to become a black snake
Can you feel it when you ride? It almost looks like some of the tire slipped on the bead while the other side didn’t + you said the rim looks undamaged
Maybe it was like that from your last ride and you hadn’t noticed?
Shit’s fucked.
The same thing keeps happening to one of my tires on my commuter bike. The wheel itself is totally straight and bike shop mechanics tell me it’s trued. But the tire keeps getting a kink like this (although much much smaller). When I replace the tire it gets the same kink after a few weeks
Need more photos from other angles
Messed up
struck curb,broke internal belt inside tire?
Time for new tires
Over inflation. New tire!
https://preview.redd.it/qiplw1mvqgqg1.png?width=992&format=png&auto=webp&s=7b39aa8758d8ed32cfc886e3a4b6eaad9e0cd7c3
Decided to become a full time artist
Is the rim intact?
Gone wonk
I can tell you confidently that the inside of the tire casing has torn. Likely from age. Dry rubber happens. But if you strip that tire and tube off and look on the inside of the tire it will have torn threads in it.
Casings break sometimes. New tire day coming at ya!
Overinflated and ripped the threads that are built into the rubber. I’ve done it
Just normal bontrager things.
the tire has lost its structural integrity from dry rot and bulged out its least point of resistance…ride on !
It’s unwell