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Old Sep 18th, 2018, 14:48   #7
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Originally Posted by Uksojourn View Post
When I took a front tyre off to swap with the rear there was a diagonal cut in the tread down to the the banding layer below. The tyre had bulged slightly at that point, holding the rubber open. Different and scary!

New tyre fitted and slow shimmy gone.
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Thank you for posting the update. That could have been a scary high speed blow-out waiting to happen!
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