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I recently posted about checking my tires and finding my rear had lost 20 lbs. Filled it up and kept checking for a couple of days but it didn't lose any more air. Got the wheel off the ground and closely examined tire--no nails, staples or anything else I could see. As someone suggested I slowly turned tire and sprayed with 409 but no air bubbles detected.
My indy just phoned me. He found some corrosion on the inside edge of the wheel. Just in one spot on one side of the wheel. Probably why tire lost air. He buffed it out pretty good and we hope it won't occur again. This is a '13 RGC bike, with factory wheels, next month will be 2 years since I picked it up.
Thought I would share info. And with 15,000 miles I told him to go ahead and put a tire on as I didn't want to chance having it go down on me again and I went with a newer Dunlop AE high mileage (so Dunlop says) model tire.
My indy just phoned me. He found some corrosion on the inside edge of the wheel. Just in one spot on one side of the wheel. Probably why tire lost air. He buffed it out pretty good and we hope it won't occur again. This is a '13 RGC bike, with factory wheels, next month will be 2 years since I picked it up.
Thought I would share info. And with 15,000 miles I told him to go ahead and put a tire on as I didn't want to chance having it go down on me again and I went with a newer Dunlop AE high mileage (so Dunlop says) model tire.