OE tire lifespan. Appropriate?

[ebinmaine 67,435]

ONLY a 1967. 

 

Measly 56 years???

 

[Ed Kennell 38,146]

 

[BairleaFarm 340]

1 hour ago, ebinmaine said:

ONLY a 1967. 

 

Depending on my need id stitch that up and roll on for another few years lol. 

[ebinmaine 67,435]

@Ed Kennell

She says thanks for the advice but...

Fairly sure it won't hold. 

 

 

 

 

..... No sense of adventure, that one.  

[ri702bill 8,316]

If the tire looks questionable - dismount it. If it shreads doing so, oh, well - it was time anyway. IF it dismounts fine, look at the beads and inner portion. ANY checking, anything that looks sketchy - give it the quick toss. NOT a job you want to deal with tire failure during a storm.......

 

I recently gave a pair of OE 1962 Firestone front tires away, the met the above criteria just fine. He needed them more than I did......

Edited December 4, 2023 by ri702bill

[Jon Paulsen 290]

@ebinmaine they make tire slime for tubes ya know... just sayin' 

[ri702bill 8,316]

1 minute ago, Jon Paulsen said:

@ebinmaine they make tire slime for tubes ya know... just sayin' 

Agreed - used it, works just fine. Just not sure how ugly tire removal would be......

[rjg854 11,360]

3 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

Was Ed being bad? I see his post is blank    

Was he being bad?

[ebinmaine 67,435]

7 minutes ago, rjg854 said:

Was Ed being bad? I see his post is blank    

Was he being bad?

 

Ain't blank here bubba. 

 

But he probably WAS being bad.....

 

 

 

[rjg854 11,360]

That's strange that you can see it, but I don't. Must be that pesky elf on the shelf 

[8ntruck 6,998]

Back in high school, I was doing a lot of bicycle touring.  I went on a century ride (100 miles in one day) with a group from school. 

 

One of the adults was riding on sew up tires.  Sew ups are a very light tire that is sewn over a very light tube, then glued onto the rim.  They were inflated to about 90psi.  Wonderful things to ride on, as they were low weight and low rolling resistance.  But, that came at the cost of low puncture resistance. 

 

To improve the puncture resistance of his sew ups, this guy wrapped them with duct tape, or maybe cloth adhesive tape before gluing them on his wheels.

 

Other than at the start of that tour, I don't rember seeing that guy again, so I don't know how his 'improvement' worked out.

[Achto 27,565]

5 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

 

Those kind of remind me of the Maypop tires that I used to run on my car as a teenager. 

[ebinmaine 67,435]

10 minutes ago, Achto said:

 

 

Those kind of remind me of the Maypop tires that I used to run on my car as a teenager. 

 

Oh yes. 

My friend Jeff had a mid 80s Chrysler Lazer. 

ALL FOUR tires looked like - his words - "baloney skins". 

Evenly worn. Carefully rotated. 

Baloney skins.  

 

[WHX?? 48,815]

Shoulda started a ugly tire contest EB!  

Forget what horse it was but had one like that. Ran and drove. I think Dan was with me and we ran it till the tire blew just for the laughs. 

Edited December 5, 2023 by WHX??

[953 nut 55,194]

One of my 953s had a front tire with a sidewall split about two inches long. A previous owner had inserted a wheelbarrow tire with the bead removed and tube inside the ols split tire and kept on truckin. I left it that way until the split in the sidewall got to be about four inches long and the tube was protruding from the split. Wish I had taken a picture of it!                 Guess without a picture it never happened.

[Handy Don 12,214]

43 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Baloney skins.  

In my neck of the woods we called ‘em “baldini racing tires"

[953 nut 55,194]

I bet if you tapped that split closed and filled the tire with spray foam you could get another couple of years out of it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=repairing+a+tire+with+foam&rlz=1C1JZAP_enUS981US981&oq=repairing+a+tire+with+foam&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORigATIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIKCAQQIRgWGB0YHjIKCAUQIRgWGB0YHjIKCAYQIRgWGB0YHjIKCAcQIRgWGB0YHjIKCAgQIRgWGB0YHjIKCAkQIRgWGB0YHtIBCTExMzkxajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8374675d,vid:pgv4UiDQa74,st:0

[ebinmaine 67,435]

16 minutes ago, 953 nut said:

I bet if you tapped that split closed and filled the tire with spray foam

I've never seen any actual evidence that has a good long term reputation.  

 

If I could find a long lasting commercial grade foam fill that was DIY and inexpensive I'd absolutely do it.  

[Lee1977 6,656]

Buy that girl a new set of 4 ply tires, you won't even have to put them. We know you so don't go cheap.

[Ed Kennell 38,146]

6 hours ago, rjg854 said:

Was Ed being bad? I see his post is blank    

Was he being bad?

What you talkin bout Randy?     I haven't been deleted for two months.  

[Ed Kennell 38,146]

4 hours ago, Handy Don said:

In my neck of the woods we called ‘em “baldini racing tires"

That is probably a Mayblo brand.

[ebinmaine 67,435]

6 hours ago, Lee1977 said:

Buy that girl a new set of 4 ply tires, you won't even have to put them. We know you so don't go cheap.

 

They're already here.  😀

[midpack 862]

I only got a little over 40...

There's a tube in there too 

[ebinmaine 67,435]

10 minutes ago, midpack said:

I only got a little over 40...

There's a tube in there too 

 

 

 

Good thing you had that rubber chain around the rubber tire. 

Might have only been 39 years.  

 

 

 

 

 

[953 nut 55,194]

8 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

That is probably a Mayblo brand.

We called them "MAYPOPS" when I was a kid.        We always bought used recapped tires at the junkyard already mounted on a rim for the price of the rim. Saved them from having to remove the tires from the rim and saved us from having to mount them. The amazing thing is they held up well, never had a blowout and most of them actually had some tread left,     not much but some!