Tubed Tyres can KILL YOU!

[Racey Rider]

Thankyou Pyrocam.
Thats what this thread was about really,
Sharing experiences.

[Racey Rider]

For your interest,
It seems someone had patched this tube before. And while I was riding it, the original puncture tore futher out from under the patch area creating the sudden flat.

[Motu]

Could also be someone has tried a ''Pando'' type repair in a can previously - this will weaken a patch...or just plain lift them off.For me it's nice to know what repairs my tubes have had,and that I did them myself so know what they are covering.

[Rhino]

I have been riding since 1968 (lots of tubed tyres then) and have had my share of punctures, both front and rear. The only one that really worried me, was a front blowout while exiting the old Waimakariri River Bridge in North Canterbury. The bike (a Yamaha DS7) decided that it wanted all the road and them some. Managed to stay on and stop in the grass at the side of the road.

As I'm sure Motu will agree, the main thing is to relax and DON'T FIGHT THE BIKE. The moment that you stiffen up your arms, you are in deep doo-doo. Stay calm and GENTLY guide it without touching the brakes.

[Holy Roller]

In 25+years of riding there has only been once My front tyre has puntured (Road bike that is the farm bike always got flats) Ran overa possum on my XR 500. Diddn't notice the flat untill I turned a sharpish corner, felt like riding through deep sand. Thank God for steel cap boots, no off but a long push the rest of the way to work (Te Teko to Edgecumbe).

[XXplosive]

i have tubed wheels

i had to ride 4 miles home with a rear flat two days ago.

it handled great haha

[pyrocam]

i have tubed wheels

i had to ride 4 miles home with a rear flat two days ago.

it handled great haha

owch.

I know the feeling.

[Shadows]

Nice nail delivered rear blowout on a right hander near Rimutaka Incline using tubes before the road was made boring. Had just overtaken a string of cars when tyre went all of a sudden. Beautiful speedway style crossup finished off on the edge of a bank at the left side of the road. Even got some congratulatory beeps from the cars I just passed.
Heart in throat stuff but I think it would have happened anyway with a tubed tyre, unless you're going ballistic you probably won't really notice a slow rear tyre deflation until you try to take a corner. Just the crossup may not have happened until the next corner.

[Wolf]

Had a rear tyre blow out on the old Puch as I was accelerating off the lights and around a corner - wasn't going even 50km/h when it happened. The arse end of the bike wobbled all over the show but I managed to ride it through and stop. Worst part (worse than the sudden fright I got when the arse-end went haywire) was trying to push the bike from where I came to a stop to the side of the road. The Puch was heavy and a bit of a bitch to push at the best of times and the blown rear tyre made it feel three times heavier or like I was trying to push it through axle-deep treacle.

Most of the bikes I've owned or ridden have had tubed tyres and I've only had a couple of slow leaks and that one sudden blow out in all that time - I don't class myself as particularly experienced in dealing with rapidly deflating tyres and I do dread the possibility of a blow out on the front (especially if it goes as nuts as the rear wheel of the Puch did) or at speed.

Still, it hasn't happened yet and may never do. Even if it does, I may surprise myself and keep the front end under gentle control.

[Racey Rider]

Have you ever posted a thread that you later wish would just DIE quietly!

and people keep BRING IT UP!!!

Thankyou for your input people.
Not one of my better moments.


GOODNIGHT!

[Bonez]

I can't be doing to bad. 1 front flat. 3 rear all in the space of a few decades. One was two up , and she not a small girl, with Gerty loaded to the gunnels going around a corner at 120 odd ks.

Glad you survived your ordeal to post about it.