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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 10:41 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reasons to check your tyres Reply with quote
Hi

Just one reason to check your wheels and tyres:-

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/TempPicture/CheckYourTyreValveSmall.jpg

All the best

Keith
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alun111
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PostPosted: 13:22 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Am I missing something here?
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PostPosted: 13:24 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
looks like the valve is about to pop out.
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alun111
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PostPosted: 13:30 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks pretty normal to me... if it's got no signs of cracking or splitting/tearing then it's most likely fine. The valve seels on the otherside of the rim anyway - not the outside.
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neatbik
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PostPosted: 13:41 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yep, the valve is about to pop out
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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 14:46 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi

The valve is splitting. More obvious if you click on it to get the full size version. It would not take much longer to split through and for the tyre to go flat very rapidly.

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Keith
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PostPosted: 15:00 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
For those who though it was popping out this is what a tubeless tire valve looks like. Wink

https://www.tyre-equipment.co.uk/acatalog/TR415.JPG
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PostPosted: 15:20 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Those perishing valves!
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PostPosted: 18:09 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Geri wrote:
Those perishing valves!


If you take a car tyre in, they tend to change everytime....

Bike tyre's only if you ask.... And at the price i got hit with on my last tyre change..... £5 a valve..... You don't have to think why people don't bother....
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joan33987
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PostPosted: 21:08 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
What's wrong with it? OooH.... the cut. oh. it's on the wheel. Right then, the valve cap
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Ichy
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PostPosted: 21:11 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
iooi wrote:
And at the price i got hit with on my last tyre change..... £5 a valve


Shocked I pay between 25p and 50p each according to where I get them from.
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PostPosted: 21:17 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
joan33987 wrote:
What's wrong with it? OooH.... the cut. oh. it's on the wheel. Right then, the valve cap




What the fuck are you talking about?
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stinkwheel
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PostPosted: 21:30 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
alun111 wrote:
Looks pretty normal to me... if it's got no signs of cracking or splitting/tearing then it's most likely fine. The valve seels on the otherside of the rim anyway - not the outside.


Bet you could pull that off with your thumb and forefinger. The rubber seals on the other side, but the metal tube still has to be held into the rubber somehow. Not being held in by a hell of a lot in this case.

I once had a bike wheel that did that to EVERY valve you put in it. Had to be changed with each new tyre. Neither I nor the guy who fitted the tyres could work out why, there were no sharp edges and he was even fitting them with the proper pulling tool (which I have never seen used before).
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PostPosted: 21:46 - 25 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
If the hole in the wheel was slightly big, Then the valve would eventually work its way through.

Valves should be changed on every tyre change really. I've never really heard of a tyre firm who don't include a new valve in the price of the tyre.




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Noxious89123
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PostPosted: 00:36 - 26 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
iooi wrote:
If you take a car tyre in, they tend to change everytime....

Bike tyre's only if you ask.... And at the price i got hit with on my last tyre change..... £5 a valve..... You don't have to think why people don't bother....


Mine get changed everytime I get a tyre changed, free of charge, without having to ask...
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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 10:31 - 28 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi

Found this post from the last valve I found split.

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=111158&highlight=fzr600

All the best

Keith
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