The Cycling Thread

[Dipper]

Epic LP, chapeau!

[maviczap]

You silly chump, fancy falling off like that

Mind you I nearly did the same the other week.

Great ride

Tyre delamination? Could that be down to the Lands End ride, with all that extra weight from the panniers or the speeds you've been hitting?

Interesting

Less than 2 weeks to go

I had some conti GP tyres that did a similar looking thing to that, luckily I noticed whilst at home not out on the road.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by maviczap

Tyre delamination? Could that be down to the Lands End ride, with all that extra weight from the panniers or the speeds you've been hitting?

Different tyres matey. There were fresh skid marks on the tyre by the bits that were missing rubber, but no idea how those got there.



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[maviczap]

H'mm odd then?
Rogue batch?

Send them back to Conti to ask why?

[Luckypants]

I suspect the skid marks were caused by the tyre piling into the rock wall by the road, but that is entirely speculation. Either way, damage to tyres caused in a crash is hardly a problem for the manufacturer don't you think? I reckon I've had 2000+ miles out of these tyres, I think it's fair I just buy replacements

[maviczap]

Ah, that's fair enough, that's a fair milage

Nice off mike, good effort.

Took the wife and little lad even the dog out for a ride today. Nate was in the kangoo bike seat on my mountain bike the wife rode on a fold up with the dog along side on the nidderdale green way.

The wife doesnt have a bike and has seen half her life go past since she last rode one. She didn't struggle too much with the pedaling but when we decided to run the dog on the lead she struggled so we swapped bikes and I handled the dog. It was floorless until she went to stop and missed the floor with her foot. She and Nate fell to the deck all be it in a slow and staggered fall so his impact was near laid down as opposed to a tumble. I was as supportive as we're programmed to be but we decided its prob best if she got back on the foldy.

Altogether a nice little jaunt, might have to see if the misses want to ride a little more.

2,000 miles to a set of tyres? I'm sure the Kendas on the Moda did nearly twice that before punctures forced a replacement.

I have no idea what sort of mileage I should be looking at before replacement of a tyre in any case?

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by EssexDave

2,000 miles to a set of tyres?

Thinking about it Dave, it will be more than that as I fitted those tyres about a year ago! I've already done over 3k miles on them this year alone....