Puncture Repairs
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Re: Puncture Repairs
This happened to me on one of the works Fireblades. Tyre had only been fitted about 100 miles earlier. Scrap.
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Re: Puncture Repairs
I read that and thought you were entirely normal!!Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 10:09 pm 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.
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Re: Puncture Repairs
Plug it.
Got a screw in my rear tyre the other week. Screw it in further, off to Watling Tyres for one of their delicious mushrooms. Job jobbed.
And everybody knows the only way to test the seriousness of a puncture is the spit test.
Got a screw in my rear tyre the other week. Screw it in further, off to Watling Tyres for one of their delicious mushrooms. Job jobbed.
And everybody knows the only way to test the seriousness of a puncture is the spit test.
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Re: Puncture Repairs
I carry sticky strings with me and would repair that away from home and carry on using the tire until it was used up.
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Re: Puncture Repairs
I've used stop n' go plugs before, but really the tyre should come off and use a proper mushroom plug like Wull has in his post. The other reason is tyre have cords in them that from part of their structure and if the nail has gone through that, then it probably best to not repair it. Okay it might be fine on a low powered commuter, but i'd not want to track day a sports bike with a tyre that has had its structural integrity compromised.
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Re: Puncture Repairs
That's what I did on mine. AA plugged it with a mushroom plug from the outside and I continued on the rest of my ride. I then got the tyre guy to plug it from the inside. I had to pay him a call out, but he then did the repair free whilst I carried on working.Taipan wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 9:18 am I've used stop n' go plugs before, but really the tyre should come off and use a proper mushroom plug like Wull has in his post. The other reason is tyre have cords in them that from part of their structure and if the nail has gone through that, then it probably best to not repair it. Okay it might be fine on a low powered commuter, but i'd not want to track day a sports bike with a tyre that has had its structural integrity compromised.
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Re: Puncture Repairs
Well, the nail has now gone from the tyre (I can no longer see it in the hole it made) but the tyre does not appear to be loosing air.
If I hadn't noticed the nail in the tyre I would never have known that it had been there and now gone.
If I hadn't noticed the nail in the tyre I would never have known that it had been there and now gone.
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Re: Puncture Repairs
Losing.Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 12:31 pm Well, the nail has now gone from the tyre (I can no longer see it in the hole it made) but the tyre does not appear to be loosing air.
If I hadn't noticed the nail in the tyre I would never have known that it had been there and now gone.
Good result.
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