We have talked about the importance of having your bike in a good mechanic state, but we haven’t focus in when to change your tires. Knowing the moment to do it is so important as brake on time to avoid an accident.
Join us in this new ride where we will tell you the importance of changing your tires and when to do it.
Changing the bike tires, why is it important?
Your bike tires are essential in your good performance as cyclist, as in the correct state of your bike. Having a pair of good tires guarantees you better traction and safety.
In one hand, whether you have a road or mountain bike, the fact of not being so worn out, ensures a better grip to pavement. This helps to go faster, but also, braking with greater precision, avoiding dangerous skids.
If you are part of the ones that prefer mountain biking, this will help you to have a better grip. It doesn’t matter if is dirt, gravel, grass or rocks, you can ascend or descend on all type of terrains.
On the other hand, changing your bike tires, when necessary, ensures you a better grip, traction and braking. This also help to avoid the damage of other parts of your amazing vehicle. Pay attention to the following information.
When to change them?
The bike tires are the most susceptible components of your bike to worn. Bike tires are always in direct and rough contact with pavement, getting worn in every millimeter that cover. In addition, in comparison with other pieces that you can grease tighten and adjust, there’s no way to recover rubber used with the pass of kilometers.
For that, is important to know when to change the bike tires. In addition, to the previous reason, we mention other of your interest, as the signals that indicate that is moment to buy other pair of tires.
On the other hand, you must also consider that when referring to tires, we are encompassing the rubber ring as the rim of it.
Damaged or cracked tire
The easiest and fastest way of knowing when to change your bike tires, is to check the rubber of tire to see if is cracked, or chipped. This is normal with the extreme wear, due every spin, the tire gets thinner.
Over time, this causes the constant flat tires and need of patching or change your bike inner tube.
Concave rim
When using the brake pad, these press directly the brake track of the rim. With the pass of kilometers, this cause wear to that part of the rim, creating a concavity in all the circumference of this.
If you have a long time with the same rims, we recommend you to pass your fingers over the brake track. If you can feel easily this concavity, its moment of changing your rim.
Worn hub
Hubs usually accumulate dirt as any other type of dust on its interior. Even though in the outside might seem clean, is important to clean them and apply an inner oil, at least once per year.
The bearing inside can wear out due the low maintenance. This doesn’t mean you should change your tire, but the hubs and the bearings only, it’s important to take care of them to don’t affect the tire neither rim.
Collateral damage to the rest of the wheel
Changing the bike tires on time, this will allow you to avoid more breakdowns in other components of the wheel, in the rim and bike spokes.
Having two tires in good conditions, talking properly of the rubber, it works as an attenuator for all the wheel. Due to the tires are the first ones in receiving the impact of bumps, rocks and other objects of the road, when having the correct inflation, avoid these hits damage to metal or aluminum of the rim, as spokes.
As thinner the tires are and have a bad inflation, passing over a rock or hitting roughly the pavement, will be as if the rim received the impact directly, causing dents. This can also cause ring to be oval, which is even more dangerous and it will damage all the other components.
In summary
The bike tires are the first filter of impact for the rest of it at the moment of riding, having them in good conditions guarantees you to have in better conditions the rest of the pieces of the ring or rim.
Likewise, it allows you to have a better braking and slip less, increasing the safety in your path. When circulating in a bikeway, this is essential if, by accident, you get on a confibici, even though some of the channelizers have their own non-skid features.
So, you already know, when your rim is oval, the spokes deformed or the rubber of your tires is worn, is moment to change your bike tires.
Of course, in some occasions is possible to center the rim and replace the spokes. This is about how good you treat to your two-wheel vehicle.
