Swapping out your Bicycle Tire to make Brilliant Do you lie awake at night, fantasizing about the day you can finally replace your bicycle tyres? I have my doubts. In terms of exciting stuff to do, replacing your bike tire rates right there with taking final exams. But it's much more fun than being strapped to a hospital bed because your bicycle tire shredded in the middle of traffic. When is your tire due to be replaced? One sure sign is if a tire tread has worn through, exposing the threads of the casing under it. You shouldn't wait until it gets to this condition before you buy a new one. If you suddenly start having a lot of flat tires, your tire tread might have worn too thin to protect your tube from pointed objects you run over, which means you should replace the tire. When a back tire begins to get worn out, it flattens, or "squares off," as it's called. If your bike seems to slow down, it's an indication that your back tire could be squaring off, and you'll need to get a new tire soon. It's wise to check how deep your tire grooves are when you buy a new tire, and keep checking them periodically. When these grooves start to disappear, it's time to get a new tire. Usually, this happens on a front tire after about 2000-4000 miles, depending on the thickness and quality of the tire and the type of bicycle riding you do. For a rear tire, it's more like 1500-3000 miles. But if you store your bike for some time without riding it, your tires can still go bad. Check to determine whether the tire treads have hardened and cracked with age. Even worse, the side of the tire-called the casing-might crack, rot or come apart. If the tire has any rot, frayed casing threads or cracks, you'll need to replace it at once, because it might well blow out soon. Sometimes, you just might want to get rid of a tire because it hasn't worked out the way you hoped it would.
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For instance, if your tires are heavier and slower than you'd like, you might want to change to lighter bike tyres to keep up with your fast-tired friends. You might even want to change to sew-up racing tires so you could pass everyone. Before you can replace a tire, you need to find the size of the tire from the side of the tire. Common American sizes include: 26 x 1.5, 26 x 2.0 and 27 x 1.25. The first number (usually 26 or 27) is the diameter of the tire in inches, and the second number is the width. You can't replace your tire with a tire that has a different diameter size, but you can change the width size, though your tire rim might be limited in the particular widths it can accept. Your first consideration when picking a new tire should be the type of beads you want; beads hold the tire to the rim. Wire beads are made of steel, while flexible (folding) beads are made of any of several synthetic materials. Wire-beaded tires are heavier but cheaper than folding tires. To gauge a tire's handling ability, look at the threads per inch (TPI) of the casing fabric; the higher the number, the better. If you need a stronger tire and don't mind a bit of extra weight, you can purchase a tire with sub-tread, a reinforcing sub-layer.
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