Tire Repair

[android12]

Two tears in a bucket...   I patched it with a repair kit had a tiny, slow leak maybe 2lbs in 3 days. I added some sealant that comes in a pressurized can and she's holding well. Saved a bunch, thanks for the advice. Anyone added that fix a flat in addition to a plug? Figure it cant hurt and it stopped my leak. Now I have two relatively new conti's ahhh...let the sun shine.

[Vidrazor]

I had a patch like the one Ranger pictured (although is was black) place on my previous front Dunlop tire at ~6000 miles. I rode those tires to 16000 miles (which supposedly is unheard of for bike tires, but both front and rear lasted that long) through all fours seasons, (occasionally) at speeds well above highway speeds. Never had a problem.

[B6mick]

I've been pluggin my tyres for years, ever since I first started as a motorcycle courier.
If memory serves me, 1 rear tyre when it was finally worn out had 4 plugs in it, or was it 5.

Best $40 I ever spent, has got me out of the pooh many times, and I have never had 1 let me down. Even Die hards "Ill never use a plug" when faced with a very long wait for a lift home and a huge towing fee, seem happy for me to pull out the emergency pump and plugs. Funny bout that, funny how they all go out and buy there own too.

[gsxr400 racer]

isnt it the fact that these are radial tires and your breaking belts to get the plug in and you have the potential to delaminate? To each his own i say though

[B6mick]

isnt it the fact that these are radial tires and your breaking belts to get the plug in and you have the potential to delaminate? To each his own i say though

As I said never had a problem, I've had a near brand new tyre, which copped a screw in it, 20 thousand K's, 12 thousand miles later(metezler marathon) it still held out ok, and that was in the days when I rode 150miles to 400 miles a day all day as a motorcycle courier. And I soon learnt that if there is a quick way to torture the shyte out of a tyre, take one 120hp bike, ride like a nutter, and do it all day every day.

I however have found the when pluggin the tyre you find that the screw nail has entered between the cords so do the plugs.

Which brings me to the next point, worth mentioning. Since becoming a Shinko convert I have not had a punture.

[LowRyter]

I'd guess that half-a dozen of my rear tires have been plugged, bias & radial.  I've never had a problem.

I did read on the Moto Guzzi board that riders have had good luck with this product

https://www.ride-onshop.com/

It's installed during tire mounting.  It's much better product that Slime.  It has the extra benefit of keeping the tire balanced by centrifugal force.  Several posters were recommending it from that fact alone.

I'd like to try it on my next tire change.

[gsxr400 racer]

slime is for ATV's

[LowRyter]

this isn't Slime.  It was reviewed by Larry Grodsky for Rider.

https://www.ride-onshop.com/

I'd like to hear if anyone has used it.

[Blade]

I have been thinking adding tire repair using the type of plugs Ranger discribed. But the responce on who would get tires repairs has not out weighted the cost of the equipment and kit to do this.

[B6mick]

this isn't Slime.  It was reviewed by Larry Grodsky for Rider.

https://www.ride-onshop.com/

I'd like to hear if anyone has used it.

used to use it in wheel barrows,(on building sites) and mates used it on their chook chasers, some swore by the stuff.

[Ranger]

chook chasers

Ya know, there's a vaccination against that stuff   

[solman]

I now have two patches on the rear of my Pilot Road and absolutely no issues and no air loss at all.

[banditone1250s]

  My buddy and I rode up to Tellico Plains and then across the Cherahola Skyway and on the way he had a flat tire. A nail of course... Any way we had one of those really small 12volt pumps and a "plug" kit so we proceeded to repair the tire. WE took the tool that you rough the inside of the hole with and did that. The we took the plug tool, put the plug through it and stuck in the hole. No rubber cement or any thing. That plug stayed in that tire the entire trip and the about 5000 miles after that. My luck it would have been flat again 5 miles down the road... Any way I just thought that I would through that in there....banditone1250s...

  There is a thin line between fear and respect...Feel free to drift across it every now and then...

[B6mick]

  My buddy and I rode up to Tellico Plains and then across the Cherahola Skyway and on the way he had a flat tire. A nail of course... Any way we had one of those really small 12volt pumps and a "plug" kit so we proceeded to repair the tire. WE took the tool that you rough the inside of the hole with and did that. The we took the plug tool, put the plug through it and stuck in the hole. No rubber cement or any thing. That plug stayed in that tire the entire trip and the about 5000 miles after that. My luck it would have been flat again 5 miles down the road... Any way I just thought that I would through that in there....banditone1250s...

  There is a thin line between fear and respect...Feel free to drift across it every now and then...

Yes the small 12 volt pump has now got full time home on the rex, but honest I don't leave home without it and the plug kit.

Now that the REX is get its next hotup, Jet kit, Pods and wee bit of advance, some heat rap on the exhaust. there is now a huge great hole where the Airbox one sat, so we, (Thats Pops the fathewr inlaw) and I have stripped all the bull Shyte plastic's off the pump made an extended hose so it reachs both front and back wheels plus a bike pulled along side.

Lost a couple of Kgs stripping the crap stuff off the bike and added back on with the little pump and kit.

Yeh I now where's the pic's?

Soon.

[CWO4GUNNER]

As infrequently as a flat occurs for me even off road on my 450x, I now just carry a plug kit which includes a CO2 cartridge kit. The entire kit comes in a pack about the size and thickness of a wallet with reamer, worm tool, 10 worms (cut in half) and three CO2 cartridges ($2 each) with a trigger applicator so you only add as much CO2 as desired saving a partial cartridge. It is true that a side wall puncture is a death sentence for your tire but it will plug just as well to get you off the freeway to a better location at moderate speed, maybe a local bike shop. I have mounted and dis mounted many a 18-21 inch dirt bike tire by hand on the ground in about 20 minutes but I never tried and I cant imagine going through the expense and time to dismount a street bike tire to install a patch. Before I would ever do that I would just replace the tire as it means a cost of about $50-$100 changing fee at most bike shops, unless you buy their in stock tires. So for me its a moot point to carry a portable pump and patches when an excellent plug and CO2 kit can be had for $14 and will do a great fix either permanently or temporarily depending on your circumstance and point of view.