{"id":1624,"date":"2009-05-31T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2009-05-31T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T18:06:27","slug":"tube-failure-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/tube-failure-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube Failure Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_3602.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/82847-2\/IMG_3602.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"External view of the tube which went flat on me while on The Potawatomi Trail. It turns out to have been seam which began to fail.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/25\/the-potawatomi-trail\/\">Last Monday at The Potawatomi Trail<\/a> my front tire had started going flat, and it took a new tube to fix it. Further investigation today showed that the problem was a small split (as seen above), right along one of the seams or for-packaging fold points in the tube. Cutting open the tube (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_3603.jpg.html\">picture<\/a>) showed that this was the only visible part of a rather large split forming in the tube.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d first thought that perhaps this was a pinch flat, but those won&#8217;t cause long slits running parallel to the wheel \/ bead. So, I figure that this is a lingering seam from when the tube was made, or possibly some damage from when it was folded for packing. Ah well. I&#8217;ve since replaced both tubes on that bike with brand-new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presta_valve\">Presta valves<\/a>, so hopefully that will sidestep any future problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday at The Potawatomi Trail my front tire had started going flat, and it took a new tube to fix it. Further investigation today&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/tube-failure-investigation\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tube Failure Investigation<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}