So I put on a new pilot power rear last thursday put less than 100 miles on it over the past few days. This morning i went to warm the bike up for my ride to work and was doing a spot check and found this......
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A 3 1/2 inch nail driven into the tire.....I though it might just be embedded into the tire but when i pulled it was all the way through....
So can i patch this? If so what would i use?
Thanks for the help, your seriously disgruntled duc rider, John
what bike and what kind of riding are you doing? ( ie:not doing any kind of track riding are you?)
generally speaking...if you aren't doing any track riding and you have a bike that isn't spinning the wheels on power off the corners and flexing the tires carcass from torque...then I'd just use a rope plug and a generally liberal amount of cement...
07' 695, No track days. Mostly commuting to work and some longer rides during the week. No spinning of the tire at all. Thanks for the reply will have to find a rope plug kit after work now.
They don't get much more repairable than that. Although a rope plug repair, done properly, is a good repair the best is a mushroom patch/ plug done from the inside.
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/522075183/Various_Size_Mushroom_plug_tire_repair.html (http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/522075183/Various_Size_Mushroom_plug_tire_repair.html)
Yeah I was lucky it didn't puncture it in the tread. I'll try the rope plug first then take it off and mushroom plug if that doesn't hold. Thanks howie.
I've been using rope plugs for longer than I care to admit.
I've never had one fail.
YMMV.
I'd put a rope plug in that and never give it another thought.
Put a rope plug in last night and rode it to work this morning. Stopped halfway through and double checked the pressure before I got on the super slab and it was still good! I bought the plug kit without the T handles so it would fit in my seat, just in case. Thanks for the help! [Dolph]
Quote from: ducpainter on July 16, 2012, 11:20:55 AMI've been using rope plugs for longer than I care to admit.
I've never had one fail.
YMMV.
Me, too. It all started when I got a nail in a 100 mile old really expensive Dunlop DOT track tire. Based on all the doom and gloom you read on the Internet I took it easy, for a while. By the time that tire wore out at 8500 miles I'd spent a whole lotta miles 100mph+ and it never lost a single psi.