Is this going to kill me?

[mstone]

Signs of a foiled tire theft? Wolverine did your last tire change? Inquiring minds want to know!

[Powerful Pete]

It won’t kill you, just check that it does not interfere with your brake pads (shouldn’t be that far up on the rim). Even if it does, it will just chew through your pads faster than normal.

Do you have a set of metal tire levers, BTW?

[Phatboing]

Hell if I know what caused this. My theory is that this happened after my crash some weeks ago – the tire blew out right after, and the path was rough – maybe it glanced off gravel? Maybe I knocked it about while changing the tire? I remember being annoyed at first crashing and then flatting.

[notlost]

It’s no big deal…I’ve picked up nastier scratches than that while bounding through baby heads without negative impact on ability to brake or anything else. If it feels rough to the touch, take some emory cloth and smooth it out for the (long term) sake of your brakes.

[Phatboing]

@notlost 120986 wrote:

bounding through baby heads

Um… Wot?

[ShawnoftheDread]

Baby heads?

[Tim Kelley]

@ShawnoftheDread 120995 wrote:

Baby heads?

It’s a mountain biking term–rocks about the size of a baby’s head!

[ShawnoftheDread]

Twisted mountain bicycling basterds.

[dplasters]

baby heads, because some people don’t know about cantaloupes?

[rcannon100]

@Phatboing 120972 wrote:

Is this going to kill me?

Yes.

Buy a new bike.

[Crickey7]

Agree about the emery cloth. You might need to remove the tire and carefully file the edge smooth if emery cloth doesn’t quite do the trick.

[vvill]

@dplasters 121006 wrote:

baby heads, because some people don’t know about cantaloupes?

You mean rockmelons?

[americancyclo]

@notlost 120986 wrote:

baby heads

@dplasters 121006 wrote:

cantaloupes?

@vvill 121081 wrote:

rockmelons?

We called the frozen variety ‘death cookies’ when i used to snowboard on sheets of ice in the north east.

[Phatboing]

You people are weird.

Emery cloth is being obtained. For some reason I’d convinced myself that sanding or filing my rims is going to lead to flaming disaster, but now that I have people to blame if I die, I’m gonna try it.

[Crickey7]

@Phatboing 121106 wrote:

You people are weird.

Thank you.

@Phatboing 121106 wrote:

For some reason I’d convinced myself that sanding or filing my rims is going to lead to flaming disaster.

I’ve sanded, filed, banged and bent rims and rim walls. It probably won’t kill you.

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