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Old 09-08-16 | 09:21 AM
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Dude, tube poking through, you can't leave it like that. It will expand until the tube starts hitting the frame, and 100 revolutions later, KABOOM. I did that a few times when I was a kid, learning how to maintain tires and tubes on the bmx bike I used for my paper route.

It's a small hole right now, and those are super spendy tires. If it's at all possible that the hole is a manufacturing defect, you should try to get it replaced under warranty. If not, you should at least try to patch the tire from the inside before you give up on it. I would look for the kind of patch they would use on the inside of a car tire, and hopefully it comes with appropriate glue. I am not confident that vulcanizing glue for patching tubes would be the right solution for the inside of a tire.
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