had a busy couple of days technically speaking as i've gotten my Bianchi from of the top of my wardrobe and set it up ready to start training on it in prep for my first races. this involved swapping various wheels, tyres and cassettes from my 9 speed turbo bike and winter trainer and my 10 speed racer. in the process i noticed a couple a small splits and holes in a couple of the tyres. is there any way of reparing these splits or should i just bin them and get new tyres?
cheers
split tyres
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These are intended for emergency get you home purposes but I have a tyre with a small hole (no bigger than a mm or two) after hitting a large stone which I might try to repair with part of one. If it works I think I'd only use that tyre for local rides though.
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You used to be able to get tread filler in a tube. It worked quite well. No good for tyre walls though. Don't know if it is still on sale.-
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What do you mean by 'small splits', Adrian? If the rubber is perished and cracking then the tyres have got to go. Even if they don't blow up and land you in a ditch, the cracking is a sign that they've lost their pliability and will be crap to ride on. Similarly, if you've cut them and the cut is large enough to significantly weaken the structure of the tyre, the safety risks of carrying on with them are too great. But, if you're just talking about tiny nicks of a couple of millimetres caused by fragments of glass or grit, which aren't causing any visible deformation of the tyre or showing any canvas, I'd just leave them alone, except for checking each time you clean the bike that they haven't got worse.