What is happening to my Ikon's?

[skipperw]

My Ikon bubbled from new!

 

CWC is replacing it....top service, but worrying that it's happening to this particular tyre. 

[nickc]

stans is crap, if is doesn't turn to snot balls it eats your tires (sorry Rouxtjie)

 

 

I use tyrefluid, green stuff I get from my local wheel and tire place. www.tyrefluid.co.za 

I used this before in my off road motorbike - actually forgot about it as an option.

Who stocks it these days - would like to try it on my Ikons

[fanievb]

I used this before in my off road motorbike - actually forgot about it as an option.

Who stocks it these days - would like to try it on my Ikons

 

i get it from my local tire place, contact the manufacturers to find out who stocks it

 

http://www.tyrefluid.com/contact-tyre-fluid-and-tubes/ 

[nickc]

i get it from my local tire place, contact the manufacturers to find out who stocks it

 

http://www.tyrefluid.com/contact-tyre-fluid-and-tubes/ 

 

Thanks

[Cassie]

So basically what everyone is saying.... Get new tyres, stick to Stan's.  If it happens again....just bad luck. Get new tyres.  At R650 a tyre.... MTB'ing is going to get very expensive!

 

Believe me...the ONE thing you DON'T want to happen... is for these bad boys to blow whilst you are gunning down that 13km stretch of mountain pass at 45+km/h....I'd not trust anything but new tyres...

[JXV]

A lot of modern tyres have dual or multiple compounds in them. When the tyre is laid up before moulding the the different compounds may not bond together as well a uniform formulation. Now you get a small puncture. The hole seals from the outside back in thru the hole. For a short period of time the tyre's full internal pressure is applied to the bond berween layers of rubber that are OUTSIDE the pressure envelope formed by the fabric plies. If that bond is not strong enough a blister will form and delaminate the tyre. I think it could happen in any tyre where the sealant cures on exposure to air or where pressure can escape thru a porous inner to be stopped by a rubber layer outside the ply.

Edited September 18, 2014 by JXV