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Old 07-24-2011 | 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by turbowop
My back wheels pick up a LOT of dirt through those holes, but so far my tires have been okay since I have holes punched through them as well to let the dirt escape. I'm removing dirt from parts of the track and replacing it in others.
The tire lose, which it might not be, I haven't looked yet, is on me. I ran an outdoor/loomy track and the rear tire filled with fine/moist dirt which over a couple heat races amazingly turned into a dozen 3/16 inch rock hard balls that worked there way to the middle of the tire. The only way to remove these (I had typical 1/8 vent holes in the tire) was to cut the inner bead, remove the "balls" and re-glue the tire, which I've done MANY times. I wasn't able to get both halves of the tire clean enough and the joint separated while leading after making my way up from 7th on the grid. I'll be honest (unlike most) and say this was in the B-main, which isn't normally where I run but 2 bad qualifiers put me there.....I was on a top 4 pace at the time...coulda, shoulda, woulda,...I know
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