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Rode Forest of Dean yesterday, first attempt at one of the downhill tracks,
Found the roots and drops together a little intimidating, but that's another story.
Anyhow running a 2.2 rubber queen BC upfront on a stans crest wheel, I know probably not best choice of wheel for that type of riding.
So I landed quiet heavy on a jump which caused me to flat my rear tyre and what appeared to buckle my front wheel badly. After inspection it was actually the tyre, that has warped/twisted somehow... Wheel was fine.
My question is this normal thing to happen, the tyre is a folding one so was quite surprised that could happen, is the tyre a complete w/off, did buy it 2nd hand and have used 2-3times myself for testing it around the flat country and was fine? Not sure whether to replace it with another one or try something else.
Cheers.
Just deflate, reseat and re inflate to check first.
Thanks just tried that on the same rim and again on another rim, that's why I knew it was the tyre.
Is it possible the tyre was already misshaped and you didn't notice?
My brother bought a couple of tyres at what seemed like a bargain. They were new but when fitted were about the shape of a large intestine.
Gears suck - maybe, but it was banana shaped after my crash/landing and I would have definitely noticed it prior as on each turn it was catching my fork. Very strange at the time I thought it was the wheel, with a slight hope it may be that the tyre had twisted on the rim, but definitely not the case.
Hmmm. Curious!