When you get a flatty

[diggydog]

I dont mean to be naive, ive never owned a cruiser before.but came to thinking, what do you do when you get a flatty. I have changed flattys before on those older bikes i use to own, that had a main stand.
I would like some suggestions on how to deal with a flatty, like i mean do i carry around a couple of blocks & a small jack.
I'm a wee fella with a weak back now, it's not that i can't lift but need to do this at ease to avoid injury.
I remember going back a few years, we used a can of spray to blow up your tyre and repair the hole. I had learned that this stuff in a can was not good for your tyres !HELP!

[sunhuntin]

hmmm, i dunno either. if youre on the road i think best option would be to get it trailered back to a place that has a proper bike lift. doubt theres much chance of changing a flatty on say a harley. my gns got a main and a side stand...i cant get her on the center stand so yeh...im in the same boat as you.

[Smokin]

I Think about all you can do on the side of the road is use a tyre pando or use a plug and a can of c02 or a cellphone.

[diggydog]

hmmm, i dunno either. if youre on the road i think best option would be to get it trailered back to a place that has a proper bike lift. doubt theres much chance of changing a flatty on say a harley. my gns got a main and a side stand...i cant get her on the center stand so yeh...im in the same boat as you.

thank's 4 your input, when u say u can't get on main stand, would that mean u r short like me.

[diggydog]

I Think about all you can do on the side of the road is use a tyre pando or use a plug and a can of c02 or a cellphone.

do they still use those can sprays is that what u call the can pando?

[sunhuntin]

thank's 4 your input, when u say u can't get on main stand, would that mean u r short like me.

yeh im shortass...i have tried a few times though, but just cant roll it hard enough. i hate trying...feels like im gonna drop her.

[diggydog]

yeh im shortass...i have tried a few times though, but just cant roll it hard enough. i hate trying...feels like im gonna drop her.

sorry for being naive,but what is make of your machine

[sunhuntin]

got a gn250....lightweight little bugger, but i aint gonna risk marking her up just for the sake of putting her on the main. sidestand is fine by me, lol.

[Str8 Jacket]

got a gn250....lightweight little bugger, but i aint gonna risk marking her up just for the sake of putting her on the main. sidestand is fine by me, lol.

Yeah I could never get mine up on the stand either, thise bikes are actually quite heavy for us "smaller" people.

[sunhuntin]

good to see someone has the same problem! only time i wish i could is when cleaning her....makes cleaning the left side tricky, lol.

[myvice]

You can get a flat tyre kit from most bike shops or a can of crap from Repco.
The kit is a better way to go, that other rubbish will destroy your tyre if you don’t get it cleaned out within a day or so.

[diggydog]

got a gn250....lightweight little bugger, but i aint gonna risk marking her up just for the sake of putting her on the main. sidestand is fine by me, lol.

they mst very good bikes because theyve been around 4 yonkes.

[diggydog]

You can get a flat tyre kit from most bike shops or a can of crap from Repco.
The kit is a better way to go, that other rubbish will destroy your tyre if you don’t get it cleaned out within a day or so.

cheers 4 info, so u still can buy that shit, but when u whey it up it's better to stuff up tyre than lose her

[sunhuntin]

they mst very good bikes because theyve been around 4 yonkes.

yeh....i had an 86...ran her from wanganui to levin and back with no oil [an accident] rode with the choke out a couple of times....dropped on the grass while learning. been through 3 members of my family, and only gave up the ghost when some bitch ran a stop sign and killed her little girl took the brunt and allowed me to escape relatively unharmed.
check the link...pics of pup after the accident.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v2...oct%2026%2005/

i do like the new bike, but feel guilty about pup. do wish i still had her, and will likely buy another 86 oneday, just for nostalgia.

[Speedracer]

I've had 2 flatties both on the rear tyre ( phew not the front!) both on my CB250RS.

Just got pulled over for speeding and being out late on a learners etc and talked my way out of it, only to drive 2 mins down the road and noticed the tyre went down. Theres justice for ya!

I was on the east side of chch and I needed to get back to uni, on the west side. Rode it for a k and then decided it was seriously flat and I should really not ride on it. I walked the bike allll the way across town until the edge of hagley park where I found a station that had a tyre pump. (About 3 hours of pushing later!)
Pumped up the tyre and found it didn't go down straight away, so I figured which petrol station I'd hit next, went real fast over there, pumped up again and made it home.

Borrowed a friend's cage to get the tyre into town later on.


The second time I got a flat after hooning around mcleans island (yeah on my roadbike naughty naughty lol) I think I got a nail in it.
I thumbed a ride from some guy who works for the U.S. at the airport, phoned help from there. Left the bike without a tyre on it on the side of the road while it was being fixed.
The bike was still there when I came back a few days later!


I used to get it up on the centre stand by putting it on the side stand, then leaning it really hard over on that stand, kicking out the centre one, and pushing it the other way until it was upright and now on the centre stand.