Bin This ?

[HLaB]

I tend to use p'tures as a guide when to replace tyres but my last conti 4 season ran over 7500miles no ptures (3000 front, 4500 rear) no p'tures and I decided I'd better bin it anyway. Its replacement on the front (a base gran prix) has only lasted 250 miles before suffering a slash to the side wall; its done another 90 miles but giving the damage to the front I think it'll need binned, what do you folk think? I don't want to splash the cash just now and its predecessor on the front (an older base gran prix) did 6000 miles, 1 pinch p'ture and another 341 on the rear, so I think I might have been unlucky and can replace with another base Gran Prix, what do you folk think?

Tube @ 80psi

 

[MontyVeda]

well you could patch it from the inside with gaffer tape or something... but it's destined for the bin ultimately

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Bin it? - Yes.

I tend to use p'tures as a guide when to replace tyres but my last conti 4 season ran over 7500miles no ptures (3000 front, 4500 rear) no p'tures and I decided I'd better bin it anyway. Its replacement on the front (a base gran prix) has only lasted 250 miles before suffering a slash to the side wall; its done another 90 miles but giving the damage to the front I think it'll need binned, what do you folk think? I don't want to splash the cash just now and its predecessor on the front (an older base gran prix) did 6000 miles, 1 pinch p'ture and another 341 on the rear, so I think I might have been unlucky and can replace with another base Gran Prix, what do you folk think?

Tube @ 80psi

 

[Ravenbait]

Absolutely bin it. That's a disaster waiting to happen.

Sam

 

[4F]

what do you folk think?

I think that is a disaster waiting to happen as well. Imagine the scene 25 mph down hill, the front blows and then

 

[fossyant]

Bin.

I had that happen on a new GP 4 Season. £35 tyre in the bin.

 

[ColinJ]

In case you are tempted to repair it - I repaired a similarly damaged tyre just before a Spanish cycling holiday. I went out and did a 50 mph descent off a 1,000 metre mountain on the repaired tyre. The next morning, someone pointed out to me that there was a rip in my front tyre, and the tube was bulging through and about to explode!

The repair had ripped open and the hole had expanded.

Bin!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

well you could patch it from the inside with gaffer tape or something... but it's destined for the bin ultimately

that's only a get-yourself-home job.

bin it…

 

[Midnight]

In case you are tempted to repair it - I repaired a similarly damaged tyre just before a Spanish cycling holiday. I went out and did a 50 mph descent off a 1,000 metre mountain on the repaired tyre. The next morning, someone pointed out to me that there was a rip in my front tyre, and the tube was bulging through and about to explode!

The repair had ripped open and the hole had expanded.

Bin!

+1

Some years ago I was using a repaired tyre and was alerted to a problem by an increasing noise from the front tyre. I looked down and spotted a huge bleb catching on the brakes. Just as I pulled over the thing exploded. The noise was so loud I was temporarily deafened (yes, really...) and people were coming out of shops to see what the explosion was!!!

I hate to think what would've happened if it'd popped at speed. Bin it.

 

[HLaB]

Cheers folk, it confirms my thoughts. I'll keep it as an emergency spare for the rear only, but a new one is on the way for the front.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Cheers folk, it confirms my thoughts. I'll keep it as an emergency spare for the rear only, but a new one is on the way for the front.

Keep it but cut it into short sections and keep a section in your saddle bag, they are useful if you get a side wall split or cut as a get you home temporary repair, put it between the inner tube and the tyre where the damage is. I wouldn't even use a tyre that badly damaged on the back.

 

[the_mikey]

I'm amazed at how people get more than a couple of thousand miles of of their tyres, whatever tyres I try they seems to get ripped to shreds before I even reach 1000km (yes I make sure they're running at the right pressure before every ride), I get quite depressed about the poor state of the roads around here, I long to cycle on smooth roads with no glass (or motorists) on it.

I've discarded a pair of tyres after only 120km before, my last pair lasted 550km before they failed.

 

[mickle]

Don't keep it as a spare even. Bin it.

 

[battered]

That's dangerous. I wouldn't use it to prop a door open. Similar damage to a car tyre would be a MoT fail and if the subject of a police check possibly a ticket too. If you use that on the public road you want your head looking at, apart from anything else if I were an insurance company and my insured driver had hit your bike, I would use any defect on your bike against you and swear blind that you contributed to the accident by riding a dangerous machine. For the price of a tyre do you want to debate that in court? Not me.

 

[Zoiders]

It's the height of summer - I don't trust a new tyre on hot tarmac let alone an old one with a hernia.