Tyre panic!
 

Hello everyone.

Im on my holliday and i've driven up to northern sweden now.
Im currently in this dingy old town that don't really cater for bikes, and i saw that the wires was showing through on the back tyre.
They have just started showing.
The closest place where i can get a new back tyre is about 150 miles.
Will my tyre make it, or is it just really dead when the wires are showing?
I don't see that i have much of an option though.
Any sugestions?

- J

Did you honestly not check this before you left the UK? :shock:

I'd imagine if you take it very slowly you'll be okay, but it's your call. Seemingly you don't have a lot of choice, but think about safety before all else.


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I wouldn't want to do 150 miles on wires, but if needs be, I would do it extremely slowly.

Wear is difficult to predict on travels what with lots of squaring off and different road surfaces. I'm anticipating the same probs this summer, as Ive no idea how long my new ones will last.

Generally for travel purposes, you use the 1mm per 1000 miles rule on normal roads, so even an ilegal tyre should do a couple of hundred miles at a push, if you can see the wire in the tyre, you'll start destroying the intergrity of the tyre as soon as you start riding, I'd stick 10-20 miles max, and at nothing more than snail pace.

I'd phone the nearest tyre place, remove the wheel (standard tool kit will do it) then get the train there and back. perhaps not the easiest way to get it done, but that's the price you pay for miscalculating the wear rate :oops:

Cheers Mark.

What he said, silly :roll:

Sweden huh? I wouldn't be suprised if the tyre place will send a truck to pick you and the bike up. Get on the phone and explain your problem. Usually Swedes are very helpful to foreigners.

Well, never having done this before i did indeed miscalculate the rate the tyre would go.

Thank you all for the help.

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ive had the same problem i was in cardiff and noticed my tyer was rly bad down to the wire and for quite a bit of the tyer too .... so i crawed down the motorway at 70 the whole way on a friday morning ( 50 miles)to get to work ....... n managed to get home too another 10 miles... :lol: :lol: i rode very stedy no sharp movements

I understand you were caught off guard, but the rest of you are all crazy. :shock:

By the time the wires show through there is next to bugger all left in a bike tyre.
This means the smallest jaggy stone could end in a blowout. Or the tyre can come off the rim, it's integrity and shape is in the wires. Not a good thing, I tells ya!

Not only that, but there will be no tread pattern there, and that means no grip, even in dry conditions.



Did I mention the hefty fine you get if you're stopped?

£2.5K per tyre in the UK with a possible 3pts per tyre.