Scooterotica

Free tyres everyone.

Unfortunately, I'll be cutting mine off when I get around to it as it is on a ScootRS tubeless rim. As/when I get it off, he'll be welcome to it.

I must point out that mine didn't fail and is now well and truly worn out, it is just a case of the thin wall sections/bulges suggesting that there are weak spots in the construction.

Adam

email sent

unfortunately my weatherman with the seriously scary bulges is attached to a af tubeless rim ,
(tyre is worn but still legal tread depth)
but if he wants to collect it he can have it , if it will help to get some answers

just got auto reply email saying he will be out the office untill march 4th and will deal with my email then
ffs

Update on this
after my first email was auto replied i was sent a couple of others to try so i did ...these i got replies from , one from a person called Bettina who i think may be german who then must have forwarded me onto Kyle Hodson who i assumed to be british....he was very helpful and concerned asking me for a few details etc.
They then sent a driver to my work address to pick up my tyre and rim ( af tubeless) and take it back to their labs in germany for tests, he said it would take a week or two.
All i asked for was to return my rim....this all happened quickly.
After a few weeks i emailed Kyle asking how my rim and tyre was getting on , he replied saying that it had just arrived back and that the guys in germany did not remove the tyre from the rim for fear of damaging it but they were still investigating the issue.He told me he had been advised to offer me two tyres of my choice and they would be delivered along with my tyre and rim back to my work address , which all arrived a couple of days ago.
So i got two new sportsmans for free but no answers as yet to the problem... but obviously scwalbe take this issue seriously and are onto the problem.
I have went through loads of schwalbe racemans and weathermans with no issues and still run on weathermans none of my tyres have been whitewalls by the way.

Good news. I can't help thinking that their star is on the wane now though. Schwalbe are so last year.

I can't help thinking "how could they investigate properly without removing the tyre?"

About 3 years ago I had a bulge appear in a continental tyre, I called and was asked
Was it a rear tyre ?
Had it been on a dyno ?
Had it ever been run at a low pressure ?
and I had to answer yes

Excessive heat build up was their technical reply

Yes, but I've got a low-mileage Conti with the same sort of delamination bulge from the front wheel of a mate's stock PX200. That most certainly hadn't over-heated.

He might have parked it within 50 metres of a dyno though, so that probably explains it, and not that it was a s**t faulty tyre. I'll look for the photo.

I've stopped buying Schwalbes for this reason I've had two with giant egg size bulges.both where 350*10 Race mans the inner wall seems OK but the tread seems to seperate and bubble.