Half an inch is pretty big. If that happened to me on the road I'd boot it with a dollar bill to try and limp home, but I'd replace the tire if I ever planned on riding that bike farther away from home than I wanted to walk.
When you say perpendicular to the bead, do you really mean perpendicular to the bead? Or do you mean parallel to the bead? Something rubbing on the tire, like a badly misaligned brake pad has been known to cause an abrasion cut, but that's parallel to the bead. If it really is perpendicular to the bead, then that's a more unusual circumstance. As others said above, that sounds like it could be a defect or could be vandalism. On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:54:42 AM UTC-7, Kai Vierstra wrote: > > So, I've got a newish Schwalbe Supreme in the back that blew out > yesterday. It's got a very clean looking fissure on the sidewall about a > half inch long perpendicular to the tire bead. It was so clean I was > wondering if it might be some sort of delamination/error but considering > the grossness I ride through everyday I can't make that assumption. > Anybody experience this without the possibility of it being from an > abrasion? > What I'm wondering is if I'm nuts for wanting to try and fix it by > laminating something to the inside of the tire. And if I'm not crazy, what > my best adhesive choice would be. I'm not really bothered by oddities in > my ride, a slight bumping that might occur wouldn't bother me that much if > I can get the mileage out of the tire that I know it's capable of > delivering. Is it possible? Will your collective wisdom demand I just get > a new tire? Should I stick to supremes if that's the case? I got this > tire in December because I needed it and I also needed the bump up to $300 > to get my new custom rafflebike. My last Supreme had a lot of miles on it > and I would often brag that flats were a thing of the past. Now I'm > shaken. What to do? Also, I'm relatively poor with hopes of some big > purchases in the future for the good of my bike and the world, that's why > repair was my first thought. > Thanks! > -Kai > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
