To Patch or not to patch.....

[JohnEE]

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......



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

[zooom]

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...

[JohnEE]

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.

[Howie]

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

[JohnEE]

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.

[ducpainter]

I've been using rope plugs for longer than I care to admit.

I've never had one fail.

YMMV.

[Ddan]

I'd put a rope plug in that and never give it another thought.

[JohnEE]

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! 

[dlearl476]

I'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.