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GAAAHHHHHHHH! MYTYRES WTF

  • 05-08-2012 8:45pm
    #1
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭


    Was using Vittoria Rubino Pro.Bought the 2 at the same time so presumably from the same batch.
    Long story short but on my 1st ride at correct psi the 1st tyre split on smooth road. Sh1te happens I thought to myself. Then a couple of hundred kms later the other split again on a very smooth road.
    Dropped an email to the shop and they without any questions refunded me.Bad batch I thought to myself.
    Then this eve I noticed on the Ultremo's I picked up that there was another split in the rubber. Again was under the max psi .I had the tyre at 135 psi.
    WTF is going on?????


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  • #2
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    135psi!!!! ?? wow IMO that's way to much!


  • #3
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Reccomended at max 140. Maybe too much for the lovely smooth roads of NCD.And even when I had a wheel in for truing in Balbriggan Colm pumped up the Vittoria to 140 saying it was fine.


  • #4
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    yes.....120max for me


  • #5
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    hmmm....maybe I may re-order the vittoria and go max 120.
    though gutted at the Ultremo's as they are a cracker of a tyre.


  • #6
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Continental GP4000....excellent tyre (at 120psi anyway;))


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  • #7
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,669 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    i've run rubino pro's over the winter at 120 no prob

    i run diamante pro's at 120 - 130 (for tt's) no prob but they are rated to 145

    got two ultremo r1's in the boot in boxs 35km on them, hate em

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #8
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    See thats why I figured that 130 -135 was a safe pressure and initally thought that the Rubino's were a bad batch as I was refunded without question ( i even enclosed pics) but with the Ultremo's I checked the max and it said 140 so I went 130 - 135ish both front and back.


  • #9
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    bcmf wrote: »
    the lovely smooth roads of NCD
    That bit caught my attention! :confused::)


  • #10
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    That bit caught my attention! :confused::)
    bcmf wrote: »
    oo much for the lovely smooth roads of NCD NOT
    .
    Less confusing! ;):p


  • #11
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,881 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Worth remembering pressure changes dramatically with temperature. You pump them up on a cold morning, and leave the bike out in the sun, you could be in for a bang!


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  • #12
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Just a thought bcmf- is the guage on your track pump accurate? Perhaps it's under-reading the PSI?


  • #13
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    @wishbone ash: That thought did occur to me all right. May just go for 115 -120and see.


  • #14
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,065 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    bcmf wrote: »
    @wishbone ash: That thought did occur to me all right. May just go for 115 -120and see.
    Yes- better to risk a normal P******* than a split.


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