Aunty Carole to the rescue!

Fuckity-****. The "new rear tyre puncture" fairy has struck again. The
Red Flashing Light Of Doom came on on the way home tonight. I limped to
Halfrauds in Stevenage and bought a footpump. Much energetic leaping up
and down and I could hear the air hissing out.

Bolleaux.

There was a fucking great screw right in the middle of the tread.

"No problem" think I, "I'll use that nifty tyre plugging system wot I
bought from GLF".

Fucking useless piece of shit that was. The special tool does a great
job of cutting the plug in half just before it actually goes into place.

Fortunately the nice man from Aunty Carole's recovery troops was with me
within the hour (thanks to the Pixies for looking the number up for
me!), slung it in the van and drove me home.

I'll bet that "repair" kit has fucked the tyre. It's done less that 200
miles... <sob>.

Ho-hum, it's only money.

 

If you can get hold of the BMW standard equipment tyre repair kit, I think
they're about 17 quid. I've used them several times and they work a treat!

--
Steve Parry
BMW R80RS, 03 BMW R1100S Boxercup, 07 K1200GT SE
95 BMW F650, 87 Yamaha FS1, Sukida SK90PY, 91 Kawasaki AR50,
BMW 330Ci
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

IIRC they re-badge the REMA one
http://www.poweredadventure.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=bi_rem001

 

Yep that's it

--
Steve Parry
BMW R80RS, 03 BMW R1100S Boxercup, 07 K1200GT SE
95 BMW F650, 87 Yamaha FS1, Sukida SK90PY, 91 Kawasaki AR50,
BMW 330Ci
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Steve Parry

That's the very one that was completely useless when confronted with a
dead 020 this evening.

 

user error I've used them on a few occasions, and they've worked a treat
each time.
--
Steve Parry
BMW R80RS, 03 BMW R1100S Boxercup, 07 K1200GT SE
95 BMW F650, 87 Yamaha FS1, Sukida SK90PY, 91 Kawasaki AR50,
BMW 330Ci
www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

Oh yes.

Thats happened to me three times now - one at just under 30 miles, the
others sub 500.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Steve Parry

Probably :^(

Thing is, the "tool" cut through the plug before it went into the tyre.
On all three plugs. On the last attempt, the little tang that holds the
plug on the tool broke off. So now it's probably in the tyre...

Pissed off? Oh yes.

 

Unless you're on a Ural. Nigel? Get a noutfit.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

No. Thanks.

 

I used one on Tori's Bandit and it lasted a few weeks before she bought
a new tyre.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
SR250 wivva topbox
TS250C
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

I've had only one puncture in nearly 30 years of riding. That was on my
ZX-9R and it happened on the day I was meant to be riding it down to
its new owner. It went flat overnight, so I wasn't exactly stuck out in
the wilds anywhere. As I was selling the bike to Beelzebub I just
called her up and asked if it was ok if I plugged it and she said go
ahead, so I had it done properly at a local garage I know.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
SR250 wivva topbox
TS250C
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Nige

"It's important is that last ell."

 

The tyre or Tori? Careful what you say, she's a married lady now, and
she and her husband make **** off great big bombs for a living.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
SR250 wivva topbox
TS250C
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

Good lord!

Pass my congratulations.

 

I certainly will, she got hitched in early December.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Tourer
Fireblade 929 (For sale)
CBR600F-W trackbike
SR250 SpazzTrakka,
SR250 wivva topbox
TS250C
RD400F, somewhere
I see a bright new future, where chickens can cross the road with no
fear of having their motives questioned

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mark Olson

Thing is, these aren't mushroom-shaped at all. They're... Odd. They're
kind of like a Gothic script capital O.

The idea is that the whole thing goes into the hole and stretches to
either side of it. Then you chop off the excess on the outside and ride
away happy.

The problem I had was that the plug would *not* go into the hole even
after I'd reamed it with the tool provided. Kind of a BGN-stylee
problem.

The destructions warn against twisting the tool as you insert it, so I
didn't. The tool then happily cut straight through the plug.

Like I said, useless.

 

It's a problem, right enough.

 

My incidence of punctures dropped remarkably when I got out of the habit
of filtering through the dusty crap at traffic islands. Every nail in
the vicinity gets flicked to the immediate area of those.