Malicious and criminal tyre fitting

[FROSTY:Me]

This is making a heck of an assumption.
Tried and found guilty on the internet. good plan --NOT.
Apply a touch of common sense. If you were a tyre guy and wanted to samatage a bike theres a shit load of other ways to do it that would make it look like a "shit happened" deal.
I'd say at some stage the paperclips fell into the tyre ---be it on the truck be it on the rack and they have gone unnoticed.

[Ixion]

IN fact I'm a bit surprised (not a lot, just a bit) that a paper clip was able to deflate an inner tube. They're not that sharp and would lie flattish. Lots of 'better' ways if you actually wanted to bring someone down.

Ever watched a storeman clearing the crap of the stores bench ? Usually, old cardboard folder, swish swish and whatever's lying on the bench gets swept off onto the floor - or whatever happens to be leaning up against the bench. Done it m'self.

[Virago]

"Malicious and Criminal tyre fitting"

I would suspect that the only thing malicious and criminal here, is your own hysterical response, to what is in all likelihood simply a silly and embarrassing accident.

[pritch]

Usually, old cardboard folder, swish swish and whatever's lying on the bench gets swept off onto the floor - or whatever happens to be leaning up against the bench. Done it m'self.

Nooooo surely not?

That's almost like when I found out there was no Father Christmas...

[klingon]

...Done it m'self.

Ixion did it!

We should make him account for every paperclip he's been issued in the last 24 months.

Meanwhile, on the subject of stupid and dangerous tyre fitting, some friends left on Friday in the pouring rain for a two week, two-up South Island tour. Their VStrom was behaving a bit oddly on the wet road so when tying down on the ferry they went over it to see what the problem was. Answer: The front tyre had been fitted back to front.

Needless to say, the tire fitter will be getting a visit and some very stern words from my friends on their return. I think the full story (including name & shame) will also be told on here. As it should be when that kind of incompetence is exposed.

[Ixion]

I once worked for a boss who was so anal that he actually did issue paperclips! You had to sign for them!

[vagrant]

I have had a new tyre develop an annoying slow leak. Cause was the very long staples used to attach the pricing label. I had eight nice little pin holes that matched the price label perfectly.
The shop investigated and found the stock boy had run out of staples, so grabbed the gun that the sales team used to put up their posters, with much longer staples in it.

[AllanB]

Probably just a accident - you know like those guys who run around with hard-ons and trip up falling on some unsuspecting woman.

[Bonez]

Can the thread be renamed "Clippys Revenge" please.

[Taz]

The tyre fitter should always check for items in the tyre before fitting. It's just good practise and common sense. No excuse really.

[ducatilover]

Probably just a accident - you know like those guys who run around with hard-ons and trip up falling on some unsuspecting woman.

yeah thats very easy to do...........

[Zoolander]

Every biker should boycott a bike shop that would intentionally endanger a life, BUT proof that they are indeed guilty without a shadow of a doubt, would be required first would it not?

Nah, who needs proof when you have KB??

[Mom]

I once worked for a boss who was so anal that he actually did issue paperclips! You had to sign for them!

I once worked for a boss who told me in no uncertain terms that "THE BANK IS NO PLACE FOR FRIVOLITY!!!!"

I made the mistake of smiling, I may have laughed out loud a tiny bit too

As far as the paper clip thing goes,
who but the tyre installer knows,
to make it an issue,
that requires a tisue,
on the internet really blows!

Could have come from anywhere as has been said before. I can not for the life of me imagine someone deliberately "getting back at someone" by putting paper clips in his tyre. Probably a young'un who is not well versed in changing a tyre with a tube in it. You do actually have to check the inside of the tyre and the rim for sharp things, before you put the tyre back on the rim, and sometimes even when you do check you can miss the sneaky sharp thing that sends the tube flat again.

[Kickaha]

IN fact I'm a bit surprised (not a lot, just a bit) that a paper clip was able to deflate an inner tube. They're not that sharp and would lie flattish. Lots of 'better' ways if you actually wanted to bring someone down.

They will but normally from chafing between the tube and tyre, it would leave a paper clip shaped imprint in the tube

The tyre fitter should always check for items in the tyre before fitting. It's just good practise and common sense. No excuse really.

No there isn't any excuse not to do it when a tube is fitted and in the case of a tube being fitted tyre talc should also be used

[barty5]

surly a hand full of paper clips would have a hard time staying in the tyre asuming the shop uses a tyre machine to fit tyres as it would have been laying down flat gravity should cause them to fall out or at least move around so as to be notices before or while the tube was fitted???