Fixing a tire?

[Lazarus]

Originally Posted by SVOboy

I saw some ridic crashed at my first race, the most scary being one where my teammates bike "flew like 15 feet in the air and then came down and took out another cyclist" so I'm gonna play it nice and easy,

Those you ride with will thank you. It's no fun when hit the ground at 30+ and when your in a big group you don't have time to react without taking out several others.

[roflwaffle]

Originally Posted by SVOboy

I saw some ridic crashed at my first race, the most scary being one where my teammates bike "flew like 15 feet in the air and then came down and took out another cyclist" so I'm gonna play it nice and easy,

WTF!? I was thinking about racing but now, meng... Y'all are nuts!

[SVOboy]

It was a pretty funny story. No one believed him until the other guy in that race on our team came back to the van and was like "@($@$@ RUDY"S DEAD! HIS BIKE WAS FLYING OVER OUR HEADS!"

[roflwaffle]

Ha! Sounds like a ton of fun. Except for Rudy.

[RH77]

Bum deal. Was it on public roads, by the way? The Gubmint may be responsible...

This is more towards automobiles, but might apply. Recently my Wife hit a pothole a ripped a gash in the sidewall. MODOT promptly paid for a new OEM tire (mount, balance, stem, etc), and an alignment.

Sad thing, countless vehicles unsuspectingly hit the same hole and wound up on the side of the road until they half-arse patched it and it happened again weeks later.

I wonder if your municipality would compensate bike riders?

RH77

[Lazarus]

In the blink of an eye. Keep in mind they're probably doing 25+

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[SVOboy]

Rudy's wreck was actually in a sprint straight, prolly in the high 20s, he was pushed and crossed wheels with the guy in front of him.

My pothole was indeed on public roads. I'll send vermont a blitz. At the very least to fix the roads,

[boxchain]

In my delivery days I used to use a couple layers of duct tape for small sidewall/hole repair. I was running 30s psi on 1.7 MTB semi slicks, so YMMV, standard disclaimer applies.

That hole doesn't look small though. Hope you don't have many right turns

[SVOboy]

Yeah, these tires are meant to run 120psi, so it definitely doesn't seem to happy. I'll just air it down and only use it on the trainer. *sadness*

[AndrewJ]

Good decision to get a new tire.

sidewall tears can be patched temporarily with a folded up dollar, energy bar wrapper or somesuch, but that's only a temorary fix. The permanent fix is buying a new tire, sorry to say there's no way around it.

Except to get some 26x2.3 tires like I just got
No pinch flats in those babies!