So Thats What Was Wrong? Embarrassing Revelations

[Bearly Flying]

Hell; I never checked my tire pressure all year, and my tires look good.

Of course the bike never left the garage all year....... @#$$%^$ work.........

 

[BkerChuck]

Most of my friends think I'm anal about tire pressure and suspension adjustment and lubing pivot points. A few years ago a group met at our house to leave for a motorcycle event about 200 miles away. Before leaving, I insisted everyone check their tire pressure and had my compressor tank filled and ready for action. I recall one guy on a Honda Shadow that showed less than 12 lbs of air in the front and certainly under 20 in the rear! I told everyone, I don't mind stopping to help if you break down but if it's just plain negligence like that on your part you're on your own!

 

[gixxerjasen]

ionbeam, you forgot to mention that there's no room in the engine bay to slide a flat head screwdriver between any parts and major disassembly is required to get to all spark plugs or to change the battery.

I'm in the boat of not checking daily. However, with the wide variety of tire pressures that people run, and the fact that I suck at noticing the difference in handling that one click on the suspension, or one psi in the tire make, I don't overly worry about it.

 

[lnewlf]

in my rookie year I turned my '75 Yammie TX500 off the main road onto a side road and had the front tire roll completely off the rim...saved the bike with my leg dirt bike style but damn near tore my nutz off doing so... check 'em every ride...you never know when you might pick up a nail..tires that is..

 

[Old Guy]

I never found a way to check the Goldwing rear tire without lying on the ground next to the bike. Some of the 'wingers I've met would have a difficult time getting back up without help. Not to be critical, mind you, because I'm rapidly getting there myself

Regarding the opening post and throwing the plug, I was told many years by a guy I respected that you should push the plug through and give it a full turn or two before pulling the tool back out. He explained that doing so wads the plug inside the tire and makes it far less likely to come back out. When dismounting the tire, I've checked the plugs, and they're always sort of wadded up in the carcass, and I don't how they'd get out unless they came in somehow. I've never thrown a plug, so maybe it works. Or maybe it doesn't matter.

 

[wheatonFJR]

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[Old Guy]

I've run a plug to thin tread and replugged as a desperate measure to get home on a PR2.
I'll watch my tire situation a little more closely next time I hit SE Ohio...or Wayne will smack me in the nuts.

ow!

 

[wheatonFJR]

I've run a plug to thin tread and replugged as a desperate measure to get home on a PR2.
I'll watch my tire situation a little more closely next time I hit SE Ohio...or Wayne will smack me in the nuts.

ow!

Yer not kiddin'