Questions you're too embarrassed to ask

[Xile]

1-Make sure you got a girl/boyfriend with a 'tyre repair' kit in her/his bike.
2-Call her/him
3-Make her/him take off that f.. nail of your tyre, do the puncture and inflate the tyre (with those little strange bottle of compressed air, looks like miniature diving tanks lol).
4-Say thanks.
5-Think that you should probably have one of this kit yourself for next time...

*going to buy one* soon...

[rottiguy]

hey has anyone had any experence with those airasol tyre inflating cans ? I remember from a few years ago they would blow up ya tyre but if you didn't get the stuff out it would eventually stuff ya tyre permanantly. Are the new cans ok to leave in the tyre or is it still the same.

[McDuck]

hey has anyone had any experence with those airasol tyre inflating cans ? I remember from a few years ago they would blow up ya tyre but if you didn't get the stuff out it would eventually stuff ya tyre permanantly. Are the new cans ok to leave in the tyre or is it still the same.

I wouldnt recomend one, most tyre shops i have asked they have said they do 'work' but they charge a large fee for fixing the tyre once it has been done with that stuff.

[rottiguy]

Cheers mate, yeah I thought it sounded too good to be true

I wouldnt recomend one, most tyre shops i have asked they have said they do 'work' but they charge a large fee for fixing the tyre once it has been done with that stuff.

[McDuck]

Cheers mate, yeah I thought it sounded too good to be true

Altho if the tyre was nearing th end anyway and you were in the middle of nowhere i would go for it

[rottiguy]

true, although my tyres are new

Altho if the tyre was nearing th end anyway and you were in the middle of nowhere i would go for it

[FJRider]

hey has anyone had any experence with those airasol tyre inflating cans ? I remember from a few years ago they would blow up ya tyre but if you didn't get the stuff out it would eventually stuff ya tyre permanantly. Are the new cans ok to leave in the tyre or is it still the same.

They get you home...If you survive a puncture at speed...a new tyre is the least of your problems. OR SHOULD BE !!!

[rottiguy]

mmm that's true, might keep one under the seat just in case

They get you home...If you survive a puncture at speed...a new tyre is the least of your problems. OR SHOULD BE !!!

[cowboyz]

every puncture I have had in either the front or the rear has just let the tyre down and the handling gets progressively worse as the air gets on the wrong side of the tyre. Nothing to write home about. Certainly wouldnt get all excited about "surviving" the experience. i got stuck in the hawkes bay once with a flat tyre and hopped from petrol station to petrol station to get home over inflating the tyre to keep air in it. Tyre was rooted by the time I got home and not recommended but meh.

[McDuck]

Unless your tyre has an inner tube, then you have little more than seconds before it is dead flat (apparently)

[Delphinus]

Depends on the puncture.. I had a quite obvious wriggle mid corner while overtaking a car. Then kept riding for nearly half a km wondering wtf was going on with the handling. (trouble seemed to be coming from the front) Pulled over to check what was going on and tyre was flatter than a pancake. Could push it right in. And it was the rear. Have since been told wiggles at the front mean issues at the back and vice versa.

[CookMySock]

Unless your tyre has an inner tube, then you have little more than seconds before it is dead flat (apparently)

No, its the opposite. If you get a nail in a tubeLESS tyre is will slowly slowly leak out, progressively making the bike harder and harder to ride. You can stop at a garage and top it up and move on. If it has a tube fitted it will go down real fast.

The safety seal is the best repair kit for road tyres IMO, provided you have access to plenty on re-inflation air. You can do a permanent repair on the side of the road with safetyseal.

DB

[swbarnett]

No, its the opposite. If you get a nail in a tubeLESS tyre is will slowly slowly leak out, progressively making the bike harder and harder to ride.

I'm sure for the majority of cases this is correct.

I had a 6 inch nail go through the tread and come out just outside the rim on my DB750. It was flat within a couple of bike lengths. A heart attack later I managed to get down from 100kph with a wild fishtail. Thankfully was not the front tyre!

[Biggles2000]

I carry to fix tyres a AA card and a cell phone, also; a set of tube patches inc glue, a set of tubless temporary plugs inc plug tool, a set of small tyre irons, a valve removel tool, 3 small co2 gas bottles and finally small push-cycle air pump.
I think I have had 5 punchers in 30 years. 2 of them were blow outs, actually in both cases I ran over a bit of sheet steel and it cut into the tyre. The bike just went very wobbley and I pulled over, no probs.

[musicman]

Last Friday I went to the petrol station to pump up my tyres because handling felt funny, found the rear was quite a lot down, didn't think much of it at the time. Saturday rode to Hamilton, when I got there I saw a nail in my tyre, but being a late Saturday afternoon and in another town I couldn't really do anything (didn't have a puncture repair kit). Sunday morning pumped up the tyre again and rode back on Sunday afternoon, then to work and back home on Monday all without pumping it up again. I guess I was quite lucky that the nail kinda plugged up the hole so the tyre didn't deflate much.