Have y'all ever seen a tire do this?
My fiance and I were on our way to get pictures done with the bike last weekend as part of a wedding photo shoot package. We get to the photographer's place and Jessi (my fiance) happens to look at he rear tire. This is what she saw.
We didn't feel the tire at all the whole ride up there at freeway speeds. I think the separation happened in the parking lot as we pulled up. When pulling in to their place I had to do a U-turn because I passed it up the first time. Even doing the tight slow U-turn didn't reveal the bump feel of that much tread being lost.
There happened to be a motorcycle store about a mile down the road, K's Motorcycle (I think that was their name) on 59. I called them to see if they had a replacement Metzler with white walls in stock and they did!!!! Jessi jumped into the car with the photographer and they followed me to the store. They couldn't believe I rode to the store, but the tire was still holding air. On the ride to the store I could feel the bump of the missing tread the whole way. This is why I don't think it happened until a minute before we got off the bike. I never went and checked to the parking lot to see if I could find the piece.
The photographer left and told us to call him when we are done. About an hour later we had a new tire. We called the photographer and they met us to get the shoot.
All in all an uneventful experience, but I've never seen a tire do this. I have always used Metzler tires and even replace the tire with an identical Metzler.
I called Metzler, I kept the tire, and they will look at the tire and decide if it is a manufacturing defect or not. I explained that the tire was not under warrenty, but they said the warrenty against defect is for the life of the tire.
I'll let you know what happens.
My fiance and I were on our way to get pictures done with the bike last weekend as part of a wedding photo shoot package. We get to the photographer's place and Jessi (my fiance) happens to look at he rear tire. This is what she saw.
We didn't feel the tire at all the whole ride up there at freeway speeds. I think the separation happened in the parking lot as we pulled up. When pulling in to their place I had to do a U-turn because I passed it up the first time. Even doing the tight slow U-turn didn't reveal the bump feel of that much tread being lost.
There happened to be a motorcycle store about a mile down the road, K's Motorcycle (I think that was their name) on 59. I called them to see if they had a replacement Metzler with white walls in stock and they did!!!! Jessi jumped into the car with the photographer and they followed me to the store. They couldn't believe I rode to the store, but the tire was still holding air. On the ride to the store I could feel the bump of the missing tread the whole way. This is why I don't think it happened until a minute before we got off the bike. I never went and checked to the parking lot to see if I could find the piece.
The photographer left and told us to call him when we are done. About an hour later we had a new tire. We called the photographer and they met us to get the shoot.
All in all an uneventful experience, but I've never seen a tire do this. I have always used Metzler tires and even replace the tire with an identical Metzler.
I called Metzler, I kept the tire, and they will look at the tire and decide if it is a manufacturing defect or not. I explained that the tire was not under warrenty, but they said the warrenty against defect is for the life of the tire.
I'll let you know what happens.