| Author | Message | ||
     Tgroghan |
Well it was bound to happen at some point. Riding motorcycles since 1997 and about 40k miles later on various bikes I finally got a roofing nail in the rear tire. Why did it have to happen to the new buell with only 1500 mi on the tires!? Murphys Law at work. I just changed the tires on my other Buell. I guess that's one excuse to buy a new set! I'll be posting the front forsale sometime soon possible. | ||
| Freyke |
Thad, You can likely patch it should run you about $30.00 at a local shop... kk//kef | ||
| Tbs_stunta |
Yep, plug the tire and off you go. You're not going to want to do a track day on it, but for regular spirited riding you should be fine. Just be extra vigilant about checking your pressure. | ||
| Jaredkuper |
My plug has held up fine. I haven't given it much abuse, but it's been really great. I wouldn't have even changed it for the track day if I wasn't worried about them letting me pass tech inspection. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Just for clarity here, the plugs people are talking about are installed from the inside of the tire, while the tire is off the rim. Not those gooey rubber rope things (which are installed from the outside, and will get you home, but are not for long term use). I've run two professionally applied internal plugs on two different tires for a total of probably 10k miles (including 300+ very hard ones at deals gap) without a lick of trouble. | ||
| Starter |
Internal patches are fine in my opinion as long as the guy putting them on knows what to look for in terms of tyre belt damage. Too many of those little wires broken and they should recommend you scrap it. But a nail won't do any domage to the belts in most cases. I've run internal plugs with no problems heaps of times. | ||
| Ted |
I feel your pain. The rear tire picked up a screw at 1000 miles on the xb9s. The jokers gave the screw back to me as a souvenir. $130 Cdn. The tech said they ran a plugged 2X, tire at tracks days with no probs. | ||
| Blue02m2 |
We had several hail storms one year that lead to dozens of roofing nail related tire injuries for my two bikes. One time I got my M2 home from getting a new tire mounted only to find 2 nails in the brand new tire. Thankfully I think I've collected all of the roofing nails in the DFW area. I've used a plug gun with Mushroom type plugs with great success and gotten either the remaining tread life ( or another nail's worth) out of several tires this way. The head of the mushroom acts as a patch so the pressure and heat in the tire act to seal the plug. You can buy a kit from JC Whitney. The string and goop type plugs are far to scary for me and I've read that they simply are not safe on a motorcycle tire. Here the pressure and heat are not your friends. I never put more than 2 plugs in a given tire as I've read that the structure of the tire is at risk after that. Although it is a good idea, I did not unseat the tire to check for structural dammage on the inside ... if the plug seated and sealed well I assumed that there were not huge chunks of frayed belts sticking out on the inside. I put about 42 pounds of pressure in the tire and checked for 42 pounds a day or 2 later before declairing the tire to be useable. I then lowered the inflation to a reasonable level and went looking for the next nail. My personal experience and cost vs. risk decision... make your own educated decisions. |
