Aunty Carole to the rescue!

In both cases some lubrication would help.
For rubber the best thing is washing up liquid. Not likely to be in
the bike toolbox so try water or spit. A drip of oil from the dipstick
or a smear of chain oil would also work but only for a temporary job, oil
tends to rot rubber in the long term.

Clumsy bugger, next time use some lube.

 

Lucky sod. The only bike puncture I had just HAD to happen in the middle
of the bloody Namib about 50 miles short of Windhoek. After about 2 hours
an army truck came along and some nice squaddies put the bike on the
back and gave me a lift. People die out there without help.

 

My experience exactly. As I said here a few months ago, the ones with
plugs that are sort of triangular-shaped laminates of rubber and fabric
work for me.

Plugged the K's tyre with one back in the autumn, and it was still there
when I replaced the tyre the other day.

 

Used twice and scrapped one plug but fitted another. On the second
occasion the plug stayed in for another 5K miles. I did stick the
liquid sealer into the tyres before a trip around ireland, no idea if
it would have been effective or not.

 

where do you filter now then? on the pavement?

 

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

Look, you're doing it *again*.

You know absolutely ****-all about this, so why comment?

The plugs are coated with cement before fitting. How would washing up
liquid interact with that, do you suppose?

 

Better than the oil from the chain on the GTR, I guess.

Do you think we ought to tell Scott that the oil in his oiler will rot
'O' rings, d'you think - or is that just a rash generalisation from a
bloke who is still boiling his chains in linseed twice a week?

 

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

<raises eyebrow>

 

<rolls eyes>

 

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

<hops up and down on one leg, doing elephant trunk impression with right
arm>

 

paging Ogden

 

Not quite as close to them - preferably through shopping malls.

 

5K ..... they're only designed to a max 50 mph and to get you to a proper
tyre repairer

--
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

 

You are just special. I've repaired at least 3 punctures with these. One
lasted months with regular 100 plus M-Way bashes.

 

And? It was put in late on a Saturday to IIRC now so I could go to
Donnington. Blasted tyre was almost new, it worked fine up to my
normal speeds, after a little while to get some confidence in. When
the tyre wore out I and the tyre fitter pulling on the plug couldn't
shift it. I didn't die or crash so it must have been safe.

 

They're designed for a lot more than that, but the product liability
lawyers slap on the warning.

I rode a Kawasaki 750 Zephyr to the South of France and back with a
plug in its back tyre, at anything up to, well, flat out, and the K
was taken into three figures with the plug in it.

Properly installed, they're fine. Um, I'm talking about the natural
rubber ones here, rather than those silly pastic ones that you screw
in like a glorified self-tapper.

 

On French Runs, I'm put in mind of a group of oversized rugby balls,
with heads poking from one end and feet from t'other.

 

Agreed. They really are shite. But.... the tools are ok, as is the glue s
what yu need are those plugs shaped like a mini mushroom, or even the
tapered ones which look like they can't possible work but do.

I've used the tapered rubber plugs a fucking lot (every new tyre bar one)
and they've worked every time. Those "ring" type plugs have all snapped on
the vinegar stroke.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Thta's me fucked then. I only manged 6500 miles with one of those plugs
holding the air in and many of the miles were done at at maximum speed fully
loaded with luggage, tent, tank bag, tail pack.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19