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How do you prevent your tyres perishing when unused for
some time?

Keep them inside the house where they're not exposed to lots
of temperature and humidity variations that contribute to
dry rot. If you keep them mounted on rims, put your wheels
in wheel bags. Better yet, remove the tires and put them
back in boxes and in a drawer somewhere. Leaving them on the
bike out in the garage is a recipe for dry rot!

Bob C.

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How do you prevent your tyres perishing when unused for
some time?

Keep them inside the house where they're not exposed to
lots of temperature and humidity variations that
contribute to dry rot. If you keep them mounted on rims,
put your wheels in wheel bags. Better yet, remove the
tires and put them back in boxes and in a drawer
somewhere. Leaving them on the bike out in the garage is a
recipe for dry rot!

Bob C.

Seems almost a troll... I use my bikes frequently (except
the ol' busted one from '88 will will be a trainer bike
eventually), though have noticed exposure to sunlight, UV in
particular will dry and crack rubber. No tire lasts forever,
even on the shelf. Best to get out and ride the thing once
in a while or rotten tires will be the least of your
worries, i.e. dried grease and corrosion.

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How do you prevent your tyres perishing when unused
for some time?

Keep them inside the house where they're not exposed to
lots of

temperature

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and humidity variations that contribute to dry rot. If
you keep them mounted on rims, put your wheels in wheel
bags. Better yet, remove the tires and put them back in
boxes and in a drawer somewhere. Leaving

them on

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the bike out in the garage is a recipe for dry rot!

Bob C.

Seems almost a troll... I use my bikes frequently (except
the ol' busted one from '88 will will be a trainer bike
eventually), though have noticed exposure to sunlight, UV
in particular will dry and crack rubber. No tire lasts
forever, even on the shelf. Best to get out and ride the
thing once in a while or rotten tires will be the least of
your worries, i.e. dried grease and corrosion.

I thought that I read a quote by Roger De Vlaeminck (I think
it was him) that attributed his lack of flats in Paris-
Roubaix to the fact he used tires that had been stored in a
shed for three years to make them harder. Can anyone confirm
/ deny this practice?

-T

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I thought that I read a quote by Roger De Vlaeminck

Swinging back on topic, he's full of [censored] of course. Otoh he
did, erm, cause a skyrocketing of terrorism on
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Tom Schulenburg said:

I thought that I read a quote by Roger De Vlaeminck

Swinging back on topic, he's full of [censored] of course. Otoh
he did, erm, cause a skyrocketing of terrorism on
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I don't follow. She doesn't make me think of terrorism.

Jay Hill said:

I don't follow. She doesn't make me think of terrorism.

See thread "IHBC Crit".

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Tom Schulenburg said:

I thought that I read a quote by Roger De Vlaeminck

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I take it you like them scawny.

Tom Schulenburg said:

I thought that I read a quote by Roger De Vlaeminck (I
think it was him) that attributed his lack of flats in Paris-
Roubaix to the fact he used tires that had been stored in a
shed for three years to make them harder. Can anyone
confirm / deny this practice?

-T

Back in the 70s they told us to buy enough sew-ups to cure
them before we rode them. Don't have a clue whether or not
it really made a difference. If someone said the Europeans
did it, so did we. The secondary rumor was it was a rumor
started by the Pacific Grove bicycle shop that sold us most
of the sew-ups...

Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on
two wheels...

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Tom Schulenburg said:

I thought that I read a quote by Roger De Vlaeminck (I
think it was him) that attributed his lack of flats in
Paris-Roubaix to the fact he used tires that had been
stored in a shed for three years to make them harder. Can
anyone confirm / deny this practice?

-T

Back in the 70s they told us to buy enough sew-ups to cure
them before we rode them. Don't have a clue whether or not
it really made a difference. If someone said the Europeans
did it, so did we. The secondary rumor was it was a rumor
started by the Pacific Grove bicycle shop that sold us
most of the sew-ups...

Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on two
wheels...

A friend commented on this some time ago, that indeed tires
would harden with age (effectively the rubber begins to
break down into its more stable components), though you had
to have some idea when you wanted a harder tire as hard
rubber skids easier but has less rolling resistance. Even
so, there's still a shelf life to stored tires so I only buy
about a year and a half supply at a time.