Damaged tyre...can it be saved?

[Accy cyclist]

Yesterday while checking over my bike i noticed a 7mm tear in my tyre where it meets the rim. I deflated the tyre and saw the damage. The inner tube isn't protruding through it but it looks like over time it'll get worse. The tyre is a Schwalbe Durano Plus(700 x 23c) which i usually inflate to 95 psi. It's done around 2 to 3000 miles. The other week i had an impact puncture (caused by a pothole) on the tyre. Could this have caused the tear? Is it beyond saving? and are these tyres poor quality?

Thanks for any replies!

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Time for a new tyre and no, the impact didn't cause the damage. An impact releases tension on the tyre wall and doesn't increase it. If your brake pads aren't touching the tyre, then blame age.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Time for a new tyre and no, the impact didn't cause the damage. An impact releases tension on the tyre wall and doesn't increase it. If your brake pads aren't touching the tyre, then blame age.

I checked to see if the pads are touching the tyre but they're 2mm away. How can it be age when the tyre's only done around 2500 miles and is about 6 months old?

 

[Pale Rider]

I saw Accy slam into the pothole - the impact could have damaged the rim and forks, let alone the ruddy tyre.

But it matters not how the damage was caused.

Given the speed he descends, Accy would be foolish to take any chances with a tyre, so it's replacement time.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I checked to see if the pads are touching the tyre but they're 2mm away. How can it be age when the tyre's only done around 2500 miles and is about 6 months old?

Age is an all-encompassing malady for anything unexplainable. Some things just fail without a plausible explanation. I could have said stuff happens but the sensors on here would have made it sound like I wanted to shoot something.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I saw Accy slam into the pothole - the impact could have damaged the rim and forks, let alone the ruddy tyre.

But it matters not how the damage was caused.

Given the speed he descends, Accy would be foolish to take any chances with a tyre, so it's replacement time.

Like you say, it does not matter if it is not something obvious that would affect the next tyre as well. But perhaps this helps others. Pothole impact presents differently. It presents as a boxer's broken nose. The tyre develops a snake-like wobble in the impact area. This is because the rim cuts through the cords directly underneath the rim edge, like a snake bite. The impact doesn't go right through the rubber and cut the tyre, it only cuts the cords. I'm sad to have to use this analogy but there's a special type of plier/clamp/torture devise they use to cut/pinch off a bull's vas deference without cutting through the scrotum itself. It is so painful the bull even changes name to ox.
This is the exact same mechanism.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I saw Accy slam into the pothole - the impact could have damaged the rim and forks, let alone the ruddy tyre.

But it matters not how the damage was caused.

Given the speed he descends, Accy would be foolish to take any chances with a tyre, so it's replacement time.

It's the rear tyre PR, not the front one(that punctured last Sunday doing the Trough of Bowland). This puncture was caused days before on one of Blackburn's 4000 holes.

 

[helston90]

How can it be age when the tyre's only done around 2500 miles and is about 6 months old?

Good innings that- I'd be happy to get 2,500 off a rear tyre, the Giant own brand tyre which came with my Defy was useless after 1000 although I'm hovering around the 15st mark and abuse my tyres.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Like you say, it does not matter if it is not something obvious that would affect the next tyre as well. But perhaps this helps others. Pothole impact presents differently. It presents as a boxer's broken nose. The tyre develops a snake-like wobble in the impact area. This is because the rim cuts through the cords directly underneath the rim edge, like a snake bite. The impact doesn't go right through the rubber and cut the tyre, it only cuts the cords. I'm sad to have to use this analogy but there's a special type of plier/clamp/torture devise they use to cut/pinch off a bull's vas deference without cutting through the scrotum itself. It is so painful the bull even changes name to ox.
This is the exact same mechanism.

I can vouch for that, I hit a pothole just before Xmas travelling 18-20mph, it caused a snakebite puncture and some wheel damage, a short time later it became obvious the rear tyre had started to break up and I had to replace the tyre.

 

[Vantage]

A 7mm tear is nearly a third of a 23c tyres cross section and at 95psi means new tyre time. It's not worth risking a blowout at speed.

 

[sidevalve]

The price of a tyre [replacing a 2500 mile old tyre - how much more do you want anyhow] vs the price of a possible accident - injury - death. I mean REALLY ?

 

[Ian193]

I had to replace a continental Gatorskin Hardshell after 500 miles because of a puncture caused by a large lump of glass it's really not worth the risks trying to make it last longer

 

[e-rider]

Yesterday while checking over my bike i noticed a 7mm tear in my tyre where it meets the rim. I deflated the tyre and saw the damage. The inner tube isn't protruding through it but it looks like over time it'll get worse. The tyre is a Schwalbe Durano Plus(700 x 23c) which i usually inflate to 95 psi. It's done around 2 to 3000 miles. The other week i had an impact puncture (caused by a pothole) on the tyre. Could this have caused the tear? Is it beyond saving? and are these tyres poor quality?

Thanks for any replies!

buy a new one

 

[Ajax Bay]

The tyre is a Schwalbe Durano Plus(700 x 23c) . . . and are these tyres poor quality?

These tyres have an excellent reputation and the one I tried gave me good mileage till replaced by Conti GP4S. So not poor quality, I suggest, just fair use, wear and tear.

 

[jay clock]

+1 for replace