Happened yesterday. Part of my normal route involves getting to a trailhead at the end of a dead end residential street and the residents at the house at the end of said street tend to park in the middle of the road and block access to the trailhead. They’ve made it pretty abundantly clear that they don’t appreciate cyclists weaving through their parked cars. I half suspect this nail was intentionally placed. At any rate, not exactly how I’d prefer to spend $3-400.
by Magic_Mullet
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Ouch.
Fake photo shop – one look at your postings tells us all we need to know.
Some people really have sad little lives
No way people that hate cyclists spread nails where they could damage their precious cars.
Drill a hole inside and out. Structural integrity is still all there. If it is carbon, you can patch the outside with epoxy and carbon mat patch kit. $20 fix. Re-tape. I’d ride it.
This has happened to me on a Zipp 303. Dead center rim channel. I sent it off for them to inspect and because of it being in the channel and a clean hole they said it should be good to go. It’s been 3 years now of hard riding and it’s still solid. Roval is solid, I’m sure they would take a look at it and give you peace of mind or say trash it.
How would a nail puncture from the spoke side of a rim outward into the tire?
You nailed that one
Sucks but also you are thinking they found an old nail from the bottom of a lake or something? That nail looks like it was beat to shit on the roads for some time, is there even a head on it?
why don’t you ride tubeless? you obviously ride tireless.
/s
New spoke point