The other day I came back to my bike and found I had a flat tyre. After removing the tube to find the puncture I examined the tyre and realised I'd have to throw it away. Here's a picture of the cut, which is in the sidewall, not near the contact area of the tyre. The business part of the cut is about 1cm long and a neat 1mm deep - it exposes the white liner inside, except where it went that little bit further and got the tube as well.
Here's a picture: <http://www.esquivalier.com/?p=28>. The straight part of the cut is a clean line. Obviously this was done by something very sharp, but what? How could the sidewall be cut like that while riding (on the road)?
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"D.M. Procida" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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The other day I came back to my bike and found I had a flat tyre. After removing the tube to find the puncture I examined the tyre and realised I'd have to throw it away. Here's a picture of the cut, which is in the sidewall, not near the contact area of the tyre. The business part of the cut is about 1cm long and a neat 1mm deep - it exposes the white liner inside, except where it went that little bit further and got the tube as well.
Here's a picture: <http://www.esquivalier.com/?p=28>. The straight part of the cut is a clean line. Obviously this was done by something very sharp, but what? How could the sidewall be cut like that while riding (on the road)?
A sharp knife?
I cannot see how you can get a cross cut whilst cycling, unless you're pulling sliding skids.
It maybe that you have a local weirdo who deosn't like bicycles?
The other day I came back to my bike and found I had a flat tyre. After removing the tube to find the puncture I examined the tyre and realised I'd have to throw it away. Here's a picture of the cut, which is in the sidewall, not near the contact area of the tyre. The business part of the cut is about 1cm long and a neat 1mm deep - it exposes the white liner inside, except where it went that little bit further and got the tube as well.
Here's a picture: <http://www.esquivalier.com/?p=28>. The straight part of the cut is a clean line. Obviously this was done by something very sharp, but what? How could the sidewall be cut like that while riding (on the road)?
A stray piece of barbed wire perhaps? Or could it be a malicious cut?
The other day I came back to my bike and found I had a flat tyre. After removing the tube to find the puncture I examined the tyre and realised I'd have to throw it away. Here's a picture of the cut, which is in the sidewall, not near the contact area of the tyre. The business part of the cut is about 1cm long and a neat 1mm deep - it exposes the white liner inside, except where it went that little bit further and got the tube as well.
It looks to me like you rode just alongside something with a sharp edge, that was too heavy to get pushed (much) out of the way. The cut looks slightly curved, and if the convex side is towards the direction of travel that would make sense.
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Here's a picture: <http://www.esquivalier.com/?p=28>. The straight part of the cut is a clean line. Obviously this was done by something very sharp, but what? How could the sidewall be cut like that while riding (on the road)?
Rob had a look and he says it looks like it was done with a piece of metal, possibly a blade - anybody taken a dislike to you recently?
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On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:31:47 +0000, [email hidden] (Carol Hague)
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D.M. Procida said:
Here's a picture: <http://www.esquivalier.com/?p=28>. The straight part of the cut is a clean line. Obviously this was done by something very sharp, but what? How could the sidewall be cut like that while riding (on the road)?
Rob had a look and he says it looks like it was done with a piece of metal, possibly a blade - anybody taken a dislike to you recently?
Or the business end of a broken bottle? Mrs. Hall once told me she had a puncture, caused by ridig down a subway with a broken bottle in it. I was going to use it as a teaching session for her - first take off tyre, then locate puncture etc etc. However on picking the bike up the tyre nearly fell off, having been more or less cut right through, contact patch to bead.
I once parked a cheap bike outside a B&B, but the cantankerous old git who lived next door didn't like me parking it in front of his nice tidy garden. So in the night he put a kitchen knife through both tyres. The new tyres and inner tubes cost more than the bike itself (and I had a long walk in the morning).
