Puncture Repairs

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

What are people's thoughts on getting motorcycle tyres repaired when they have a puncture, my 300 mile old £250 rear Dunlop has a small nail in it, it looses about 1psi an hour, all the local main dealers say they don't repair punctures, I suspect one of the back street places will, if not I'll try repairing it myself.

Am I going to die from an under inflated tyre?

[MyLittleStudPony]

It depends where the puncture is and how bad.

[Rockburner]

It depends where the puncture is and how bad.

This. If it's in the middle of the tread, then no worries, get it repaired.

If it's in the sidewall then the tyre isn't repairable.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's right in the middle of the tyre, looks like a 3mm thick nail in it.

[The Spin Doctor]

Unless you're planning on taking the bike on the track, I would get a repair. Go to a motorcycle tyre fitters - they'll put a legal mushroom plug in it. Dealers will try to sell you a new tyre.

[Bigyin]

It's right in the middle of the tyre, looks like a 3mm thick nail in it.

I would repair that myself all day …… had similar in the rear tyres of both the Ducati and Fazer and repaired both and ran them down to tread limits afterwards so a few thousand miles on each



This one did 2 trackdays with a repair

[ogri]

Plug and forget tbh

[DefTrap]

I used the sticky string and promptly forgot about it.

[Gregor]

Stick a bottle of slime in it

[wull]

Absolutely fine if done correctly. I had a puncture a few years back on the GSXR and there was a good bit of life left in the tyre so repaired it and ran the tyre until it was pretty much done.

[Supermofo]

I usually use a mobile tyre guy for my tyres and when I had a screw in the OE dunlop on the gsxs the AA initially plugged it and then I had him come out and put a permanent plug in it from the inside. I seem to recall him saying a plug is fine down the centre line and you can plug tyres twice if needs be.

I only managed another 800 miles or so before I got another puncture and as I didn't like the tyres I got a new set. I'd happily get the current tyres plugged

[KungFooBob]

All sounds like a lot of hassle, just buy a new bike.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

All sounds like a lot of hassle, just buy a new bike.

I considered that, but nothing locally that I like as much as my Honda

[Taff]

I've had a few tyres repaired over the last 10 years with no problems at all.
Every one has happened while commuting and running over 'dirty' parts of the road and I've just had recovery take me straight to the tyre shop.

[ChrisW]

Not that helpful but this has reminded me that I have literally never had a puncture on the road in..erm...36 years.

I've fixed them for other people, though - middle of the tyre, plug it

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Last puncture I had was in 1997, again a nearly new tyre, that time on a YZF750.

[MyLittleStudPony]

I'd take the wheel off and take it to a tyre place which will do a tyre off repair. I think there used to be a British Standard for tyre repairs fwiw.

[Skub]

Not that helpful but this has reminded me that I have literally never had a puncture on the road in..erm...36 years.

I've fixed them for other people, though - middle of the tyre, plug it

Now you've done it.

Re Cheezy...unless the nail is in or near the sidewall,get it plugged.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Well the nail (what's left of it) is still.in the tyre, but the tyre isn't going down at all now, no bubbles with a spit test over the dent where the nail head used to be, but I better get it plugged.

It's amazingly freeing having a back tyre you don't care about wearing out of squaring off, much nailing of throttle in low gears today.

Reading the last sentence I think I may not be entirely sensible or sane.

[Supermofo]

Yeah, got to admit whilst I'd happily get a puncture plugged not sure I'd be ragging a tyre with a nail in it on purpose.