dpex
12th October 2008, 16:51
How bad is that? Two punctures in two months. This one happened about halfway between somewhere and somewhere on the ring road around Taupo.
I'd love to tell you about how I hooked up with the Random Riders and went slightly over the legal, but I fear Katman would have his period early. Save to say; hell's teeth, what a ride!
Anyway, rounding a corner the steering went stiff and the wobble started. Uh oh! Been here. Done this. Pulled over. Poked hard at rear tyre. It didn't seem that low...Good lesson here. The poke-test is quite unreliable.
But just in case I pulled out my handy-dandy repair kit and gave the tyre a cylinder of Co2. Bingo. Away I went.
This morning (after a fab party with the Random Riders Poker-run people, last night) I climbed aboard and felt the general stiffness. "Bugger!" Pulled into a service station and gave the tyre the pump....Side issue here.
Have you all noticed how about one in one hundred service stations have air fittings which you can actually get to the valve? I'm going to buy right-angle valves and have them fitted to both tyres.
Half way between Toke and Putararu the frozen steering and wobbles was too much. "Oh great. Right out in the middle of nowhere...again."
Anyway, out with the kit. Piss around till I found the offending nail. Tool kit had pliers. Followed the fixit instructions to the letter and, bugger me a bunch of the repair stuff went in and left a bit hanging out. The puty-iny thing works a treat. Oops. No knife to remove excess. But Putararu was about 10 clicks up the road, so I had to take the chance the bung stuff would hold.
It did. In fact by the time I got to Putararu traveling always less than 50Kph the excess was gone.
The tyre had 22PSI. Ramped it to 42 and waited fro the plug to come out like a .303 bullet.
Not so. Felt courage returning and decided to head for Tauranga, instead of heading straight home.
Not one service station between Putararu and Tauranga had an air fitting I could get in place to check pressures, but the bike felt good.
Finally, in Tauranga I found a place. Pressure had dropped by 1 PSI!
So that repair kit works. However, two warnings. First. Carry a sharp blade. I think that wearing the excess off is probably not a good idea. Second. Those Co2 canisters in the kit wouldn't inflate a sex doll and a good day with heat. Luckily I had a tyre Pando to get the pressure up to 20PSI for the slow run to Putararu.
My next purchase will be a slim-line Co2 bottle to add to my repair kit.
Apart from that. Trust the instructions on how to effect a tyre repair. I can now vouch. They work.
I'd love to tell you about how I hooked up with the Random Riders and went slightly over the legal, but I fear Katman would have his period early. Save to say; hell's teeth, what a ride!
Anyway, rounding a corner the steering went stiff and the wobble started. Uh oh! Been here. Done this. Pulled over. Poked hard at rear tyre. It didn't seem that low...Good lesson here. The poke-test is quite unreliable.
But just in case I pulled out my handy-dandy repair kit and gave the tyre a cylinder of Co2. Bingo. Away I went.
This morning (after a fab party with the Random Riders Poker-run people, last night) I climbed aboard and felt the general stiffness. "Bugger!" Pulled into a service station and gave the tyre the pump....Side issue here.
Have you all noticed how about one in one hundred service stations have air fittings which you can actually get to the valve? I'm going to buy right-angle valves and have them fitted to both tyres.
Half way between Toke and Putararu the frozen steering and wobbles was too much. "Oh great. Right out in the middle of nowhere...again."
Anyway, out with the kit. Piss around till I found the offending nail. Tool kit had pliers. Followed the fixit instructions to the letter and, bugger me a bunch of the repair stuff went in and left a bit hanging out. The puty-iny thing works a treat. Oops. No knife to remove excess. But Putararu was about 10 clicks up the road, so I had to take the chance the bung stuff would hold.
It did. In fact by the time I got to Putararu traveling always less than 50Kph the excess was gone.
The tyre had 22PSI. Ramped it to 42 and waited fro the plug to come out like a .303 bullet.
Not so. Felt courage returning and decided to head for Tauranga, instead of heading straight home.
Not one service station between Putararu and Tauranga had an air fitting I could get in place to check pressures, but the bike felt good.
Finally, in Tauranga I found a place. Pressure had dropped by 1 PSI!
So that repair kit works. However, two warnings. First. Carry a sharp blade. I think that wearing the excess off is probably not a good idea. Second. Those Co2 canisters in the kit wouldn't inflate a sex doll and a good day with heat. Luckily I had a tyre Pando to get the pressure up to 20PSI for the slow run to Putararu.
My next purchase will be a slim-line Co2 bottle to add to my repair kit.
Apart from that. Trust the instructions on how to effect a tyre repair. I can now vouch. They work.