Puncture

[Chris Canning]

I've said before on here I have a bit to do with two guys local to me who run a bike breakers/repairers,I've seen kids turn up with scooters complaining about no brakes to see they are on the backing plate or whats left of it,I've even seen one running on the caliper piston that's gone through the plate but a guy turned up with this two days ago 

[Spud]

couple of patches good to go 

cheers Spud 

[JTT]

Flesh wound 

[motoOzarks]

loop some rope thru and plug both at the same time

[Bixxer Bob]

It's frankly amazing what a tyre will pick up though, my Blackbird picked up a 10mm dia 75mm long bolt right in the centre of the tyre, knocked a big lump out of my hugger.  How that managed to penetrate the carcass at 30mph is beyond me.  And it always seems to be the back tyre.  never worked out why....

[Chris Canning]

If I didn't know better looking at that photo I'd be saying it's a put up job,but as the little scroat who was riding the bike on the M6 came on the phone screaming blue murder and the lads had to go and get him I know otherwise and there's been another since then not as bad but bad enough,as you say makes you wonder how the hell the tires pick e'm up 

[Mustang]

It's frankly amazing what a tyre will pick up though, my Blackbird picked up a 10mm dia 75mm long bolt right in the centre of the tyre, knocked a big lump out of my hugger.  How that managed to penetrate the carcass at 30mph is beyond me.  And it always seems to be the back tyre. never worked out why....

the front tire hits it , stands it up on end just long enough for the rear tire to NAIL it (pun intended)

[Bixxer Bob]

Pretty much what I thought. There was a bang loud enough to hear when I picked up the bolt, although to be fair it was probably the chunk being torn out of the hugger,  accompanied by instant deflation.  Lucky I was only doing about 30mph, had a bit of a rear end wiggle and squirm (oo oerr missus  ) and pulled over immediately.  Well, you would wouldn't you

[trophydave]

And it always seems to be the back tyre.  never worked out why....

It's because the back tyres cost more.....

[nickjtc]

the front tire hits it , stands it up on end just long enough for the rear tire to NAIL it (pun intended)

I concur.

Happened to me on my old VFR. Never did find whatever caused the 1/2" 'slash' in the rear tyre. Thank goodness it was tubeless.... things just went a bit squirmy and by the time I had pulled over to the side of the road the tyre was flat as a pancake.

Never had a flat with a tubed tyre, but do not want to run the risk, which is why I am going to make Stanley's rims tubeless compatible as soon as I get the new tyres.

[blacktiger]

I had exactly the same on my R100GS. The killer was that the tyre only had 100 miles on it.

[nickjtc]

Do NOT try this at home!!! ......

....... but some of us have happily ridden many thousands of kilometres on tubeless tyres (with a majority of wear life left on them) that have been punctured and then self repaired. Of course, no tyre manufacturer is going to condone this practice, for obvious reasons. However, for a sensible rider who is not putting the tyre under too much stress, and with a tyre that has a lot of life left in it, I have considered the 'risk' to be worth it.

Discuss... 

[Mustang]

a better way is after you get home , remove tire remove plug . install a patch to inside of tire ( they have them for exactly this purpose . rebalance wheel .

having said that one of the tires on my cargo trailer had a screw in it from the factory ........... I plugged it , it hasn't lost any air in 7 years .

[Bixxer Bob]

Tyre dealer plugged my Blackbird back tyre with only 100 miles on it.  Did 4500 miles of motorway madness on it with no issues.

[HockleyBoy]

Do NOT try this at home!!! ......

....... but some of us have happily ridden many thousands of kilometres on tubeless tyres (with a majority of wear life left on them) that have been punctured and then self repaired. Of course, no tyre manufacturer is going to condone this practice, for obvious reasons. However, for a sensible rider who is not putting the tyre under too much stress, and with a tyre that has a lot of life left in it, I have considered the 'risk' to be worth it.

Discuss... 

Me too on a couple of occasions, one was a puncture when the new tye had less than 200 miles on it, plugged it and must have done something like 8,000 before changing it (did check the plug every single day though to check it hadnt moved). Have also had them plugged by the tyre shop and then carried on using until tyre needed replacing.

It is not to be recommended, but it all depends on where and how bad the puncture is, how hard you are on the bike, how wealthy you are and of course your attitude to risk.