Originally Posted by badsac
Nup. About 30cm around from it.
As an aside, my mates new bike suffered the same problem with it's rear tire (different brand of tire though) not a week ago. Is this a common complaint for these 80 fookin dollar pieces of sh1te?
You should do standup Expat.
I'd take it back and see what the LBS can do. If it is a recurrent problem (ie, the LBSs get returns back all the time), the manufacturer might do something about it.