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Rick_a
| Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 - 01:44 am: |
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A flat front tire. The front started hopping a bit, then I tipped in for a hard right...and not much happened. I slowed a bit and counter steered like crazy to just make the corner. At first I thought my rear wheel had come loose at the axle or something. By the next 1/4 mile it was dead flat and I was trolling along. A couple gas station visits later repeating the flat tire antics and I was home. The tire on the DR650SM had made it 13,000 miles and still looks okay for a couple more thousand or so. The tube, apparently, not so much. Good thing I wasn't on the highway! I may be carrying a can of tire inflator from now on. |
Strokizator
| Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 09:38 am: |
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Don't know if that works on tubes. Slime maybe? |
Reepicheep
| Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:08 am: |
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There is a special kind of slime for the tube tires, it's marked on the package. Good stuff to have on hand if you go over a thorn or something. |
Figorvonbuellingham
| Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:14 am: |
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Fyi most shops wont work on a wheel that has been slimed. (Message edited by figorvonbuellingham on July 20, 2016) |
Pwnzor
| Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:18 am: |
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^^^ true that. Slime and fix-a-flat products really piss off the tire guys. But an emergency is an emergency... |
Natexlh1000
| Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:35 am: |
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Back in my KLR250 days, I tried that fix a flat stuff a few times and it never worked. I really don't think tubed tires respond to that stuff. |
Sifo
| Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:59 am: |
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I got a flat on my pickup yesterday, pretty much at the halfway point of a road trip. I found out that between the 3" lift and the 1.5" bigger tires, the jack no longer gets the tire off the ground! No problem, just find a hole to park the wheel in. Of course I never got around to getting a matching spare, so it's still 1.5" smaller than the rest. I didn't want to do that to the locking differential, so the spare had to go on the front, and the good front tire rotated to the rear. Makes finding an appropriate hole just that much more of a PITA! The good news was that it was a puncture right in the center of the tread, so I was able to get it patched from the inside for a proper fix. I know slime makes a product for tubed mountain bike tires. I've known people who used it as a preventative measure. I can't blame a shop for refusing to deal with that mess. |
Reepicheep
| Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 11:18 am: |
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I always felt bad handing a slimed tire to a tire guy to change a tire. Then I started changing my own tires, and decided the tire guys need to stop being such babies . It's not that big a deal, and changing a tire is already a messy job anyway. Heck, in a tubeless tire, it usually is just dry and dusty. |
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