I’m sure someone has had this problem before — for me it’s a first.
I was just washing my bike and–now I hear water in the carbon tubulars (Easton EC 90 SL 55s).
Will the water just slowly drain out somehow? Is there some trick to this?
Thanks!
I had that with clinchers. The water came in through valve-opening. Won’t leak out. Had to take tyre off.
Ug, any idea how to prevent it from happening again?
And what if I leave it in there if it does not magically drain out? Will it ruin the bond?
If it got in, it will eventually evaporate out but you may not want to wait for the tiny amount to evaporate out of the valve hole. I had this happen, I had to remove tire, drain and reglue on.
Have you tried placing it in a very large bag of rice?
I had this happen to me from a very rainy ride. I used a shop vac and got most of it out. the rest evaporated at some point.
I would but right now all my kits are in my rice. That’s how I dry them.
How did you use the shop vac?
I’d really like to avoid removing the tires and re gluing if I can!
There are (or should be) drain holes in the rims. Make sure they are oriented so that they are at the lowest point possible, and the water will flow out of them.
The “shopvac trick” is to suck the water out of these holes with the vac. It’s typically not necessary.
You can also sometimes increase the speed the water drains by putting a piece of string/yarn/twisted up paper towel in the hole so that it wicks the water out.
Just take off tire and rim strip and let it air out for a couple of days. To speed up the process put the wheel out in the sun. One issue that can happen is the nipples on the spokes will rust which makes truing impossible. I have my broken down right now from Milwaukee.
It’s a tubular.
Sorry, forget my post!
IIRC, the wheels have internal spoke nipples (so there are gape for the water to get in through the spoke holes in the rim as well as the valve hole.
Some mfgs put drain holes in the rim, but that’s harder to do with a tubular design, and it looks like these wheels don’t have any.
Try removing the valve extender, which should allow you some access to the inside of the rim via the valve hole. From there you can use string to soak up some of the water, or a small straw (ex. the ones used to stir drinks) to extract the water.
Some mfgs put drain holes in the rim, but that’s harder to do with a tubular design, and it looks like these wheels don’t have any.
You can drill your own. You want the hole at the low point of the internal cavity. Not hard with tubulars.