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Tom
08-03-2007, 08:57 AM
Last night I'm cleaning the bike and I find on the front tire's sidewall a nice torn cut about 3/16 of an inch long right clean through. It was bulging only a little but there it was. I took the tire off and you could see the scuff where whatever it was glanced off the tube.

I'm glad I found it then and not when I was leaning through a turn at 30 or coming down Crawford at 50 with my snout over the bars.

The immortal words of Derek Sanderson would have applied: "That smarts."