Originally Posted by
Smokehouse
Nothing out of the normal...I actually noticed the cut in mine last summer 30 miles into a 100K. The tube was bulging out of the slice and hadn't failed yet. Stopped at a friend's house and had to line the tire inside/out with duct tape to finish the ride.
It would be out of the normal for me and the cyclists I know. I've never had a sidewall cut in my entire life (at least since '86), but I'm mostly paved, a rural/urban mix, and our dirt roads are really dirt, like hardpack. Sometimes there's loose gravel, but it's just sitting on top, it's not like a gravel road where the rocks are the road bed and surface as I've seen in some places. Is it those kinds of gravel roads you ride that give cuts?