Who's had tyre go flat while riding fast?

[beyond]

I was eighteen years old with a Suzuki T250 hustler in mid 70's commuting into Orks on the Southern Motorway at Takanini. Came on at Takanini gassed it to 135kmh and just after coming over the bridge the rear blew out totally.

Was a hell of a bang and next minute I was riding the wildest bull at the rodeo. Arse was off the seat, legs everywhere, bike going side to side but managed to get it over to the edge of the motorway and then spent the next hour sweating like a pig in heavy a frost in full gear pushing my bike to Manurewa motorcycles. Felt pretty sick after that with all the effort.

I've had a few slow flats on the rear with the resultant warning of powersliding prematurely around corners.

If you get a blow out on the rear and luck is on your side you may pull through but a blow out on the front at any reasonable speed means you are going to tuck and roll wether you want to or not.

Thankfully modern tyres are so much better and they have to be. Horsepower figures, torque, grip and speed have all increased so much more so technology has kept up with it. Imagine a rear end blow out at 250kmh

[vifferman]

...then spent the next hour sweating like a pig in heavy a frost in full gear pushing my bike to Manurewa motorcycles. Felt pretty sick after that with all the effort.

If only cellphones were around then, huh?

It's amazing how heavy even a skinny little bike is, especially when you're dressed for sitting on it, not pushing it....

I used to live at the top of a steepish hill. I also used to borrow my sister's boyfriend's CB350 whenever he came to visit (no, I didn't have a licence, but this was the 70's, so so what?!?) One day it ran out of gas about 3 or 4 km from home. I tried flicking the fuel tap to reserve, but I couldn't work out if the lever had to be on "RES" or the little pokey bit at the top had to point to it. In any case, it didn't seem to want to go in either position, so I started pushing. Luckily, this was the 70's, so I was lightly dressed. Luckily, I was also a fit (if somewhat lightly-built) teenager. Luckily, most of the trip home was downhill. The last few hundred metres weren't though, and I thought I was going to die. Paul was pissed off that my short jaunt took so long, as he had to go to work. He got his revenge by taking a quick look at the fuel petcock, flicking it to "RES", cranking up the bike, giving me a superior look as it fired into life, and pissing off down the road. Man, did I feel like a dick.

[OutForADuck]

I've had it happen twice over the years and have come to the conclusion it has alot to do with bike, frame stiffness, suspension and tyres.

First time was decades ago on the skinny pirelli's of the time on a Katana 1100... rear blew and it slewed around pretty quickly. But came to a safe stop, bike first heart a long time later.

Next time I was on a modern stiff sports bike with tubless low profile tires and just noticed the handling go off.. whilst I was going off on a twisty road.. kept going hard and when I stopped to check why it was weaving into corners and loosing grip coming out... well, the tire was completely flat. Barely any drama at all

[rocketman1]

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Hey thats great to hear, and very reassuring.
Thanks for the post