Puncture Repairs

[roadster]

Worth buying some mushroom type repair plugs and fitting from the inside with some rubber solution.

[Whysub]

This happened to me on one of the works Fireblades. Tyre had only been fitted about 100 miles earlier. Scrap.

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[Noggin]

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.

I read that and thought you were entirely normal!!

I think I'm very weird

[gremlin]

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.

[dern]

I carry sticky strings with me and would repair that away from home and carry on using the tire until it was used up.

[Taipan]

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.

[Mr Moofo]

TBH the bike anchovies with enough glue on them work well

[Supermofo]

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.

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.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

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.

[Skub]

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.

Losing.

Good result.