Tire Quality 101

Today during my debut in bicycle racing, I found one important factor. Make the tires have a thick side wall. I had a blowout going into a tight turn after the straight away. I have Specialized Tires. The side wall ripped bigtime. I'm glad I was wearing my karting suit. It prevented some major road rash!

Wow I'm glad you were as well.

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Thanks Deacon, but I did bang my knee up just a little. It definitely could have been worst.

I'll say that looks like a real nightmare for about two second then pain

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I see green stuff! What do your shorts look like?
Just kidding. Slime out of the tires blowouts are not fun on any kind of bike.
I had one in denver,co rush hour traffic interstate 25 coming back from Sturgis had the old lady on back and I thought we were going down but got lucky. New tires on bike. I ran over an allen wrench someone left on the road.

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thats where i left that darn wrench...

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wow that looks scary! glad you are ok.

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I originally was going to buy a heavy duty tube but the saleman at the bike shop talked me out of it!

Tore that thing up!!!!

YIKES! That does not look like it was a fun ride, thank God your alright. How fast were you going when it let loose and were they high presure tires? Theres a group of racers in Estonia that have sanctioned races that used to be members on MK. They would post their race footage, its really cool seeing 10-15 motorized bikes racing around a curvy track. I'll see if I can dig up a ling to some of their stuff...Kelly

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