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Cracked Tire Rubber: Still Safe to Ride?
While changing my oil today, I noticed 3 small cracks on my front tire. They are the stock tires that came with the bike and I've only put 2400 miles on them but it still concerns me. I'm supposed to go on a 300+ mile ride (with twisties) tomorrow but now I'm having doubts if I should. Here are pictures of the tire, do you think it's still safe to ride on?
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Re: Cracked Tire Rubber: Still Safe to Ride?
Look fine & normal to me.
Check your pressure daily |
Re: Cracked Tire Rubber: Still Safe to Ride?
i have a fair amount of dry rot cracking down in the grooves the tires are only 9 months old would you see any concern
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Re: Cracked Tire Rubber: Still Safe to Ride?
My advice was based on my rear Diablo Strada That I owned from new (bought from Steve Jordan - not some dodgy online pllace) and killed it in 6 mths or so, but before it was worn out it had lots of little cuts like that
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Re: Cracked Tire Rubber: Still Safe to Ride?
You can almost ignore pics 2 & 3 as they are cuts caused by you running over something, just make sure what ever it was isn't still in there (gentle probing). Pic 4 may be nothing but with pic 1 it may be something, they do look like cracks.
You say nine months, has the bike been laid up over that time, if so was the pressure dropped or left fully inflated :confused: If the later then the tyre may well be end of life but worth getting a tame trained monkey to look at it Having just noticed the date/time of posting hope the ride went ok if you went |
Re: Cracked Tire Rubber: Still Safe to Ride?
my bike has been running the whole time in perfect or near perfect condition it is just really small but noticeable on close inspection
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Re: Cracked Tire Rubber: Still Safe to Ride?
Naw, I've been riding my bike almost every day since I bought it 6 months ago, so it hasn't been sitting idle. I showed these pictures to one of my buddies that rides as well and he said the first pic didn't look like something that would cause a blow out, just a deflated tire if anything. I'm going to inspect all the cracks closely though, especially the first one and see how deep it goes, as well as monitor my tire pressure closely throughout the week. Depending on that, if its not very deep, I'll probably just start carrying a can of fix-a-flat on me :P. Either way thought I'll probably get some new tires soon. Oh, and I decided to be safe rather than sorry and didn't go riding on Sunday.
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Re: Cracked Tire Rubber: Still Safe to Ride?
Well, I just made a closer inspection of my front tire. The crack in the first picture appears to be very shallow, maybe only .5-1mm in depth The crack in the third picture is shallow as well. The deepest one is in the fourth picture at around 2-3mm, but it's directly on the tread and doesn't even make it through the whole thickness of it.
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