Bicycles Asked by Gennady Uraltsev on April 12, 2021
I have a hybrid bike and I am having a very strange problem with deflating tires.
My bike has 700C 35/43 tubes
I have changed 3 tubes in the last 2 weeks because something very strange is happening.
Tube 0
Tube 1
Tube 2
Repeat with one more change of tube. Same result. Completely random deflation. I visually and tactilely inspected the rim, the tire, the tape and cannot find any problem. The tire is not new, sure, but it is not bald either. Should I replace the tire? The whole rim/wheel (more expensive, also, the cassette is difficult to remove and I have never done it)? The whole wheel with cassette? The whole bike?
I am somewhat technically minded so I tried to understand but my observations essentially are useless as I can find no logical pattern. Has anyone had any similar experience?
Thanks!
Something subtle is in the tyre puncturing the tubes. It may be rubbing rather than piercing, and it may be imperceptible without pressure, but it's there. To help you locate it, align the logo on the tyre with the valve every time. Then when you find the hole in the tube you know where to look in the tyre (with some margin for error, and you might flip the tube over, so check the other side of the valve too).
As well as glass, wire, screws etc. I've had the threads from a nearly worn out tyre appear on the inside and cause slow punctures, and I've had the inner end of ice spikes wear holes in tubes.
Slow punctures are odd. They can seem to hold for a while then drop suddenly. Whether that's real or just that you notice suddenly, I don't know, but I've had a couple recently do odd things like that
Correct answer by Chris H on April 12, 2021
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