mcatrophy
Privileged to ride a 2018 FJR1300AS
Well, more interest shown than I expected.
Glad I didn't meet your friends, Beemerdons. Don't they have any ladies in their gangs? Or are they Forum members?
Plug it and ride? Don't think so. One of the staple's ends was pointing into the sidewall of the tyre. No way of knowing what damage it might have caused, and I don't fancy ionbeam's experience of a rapid deflation, particularly when the most likely time would be when I was leaned over in a corner (we have those around where I live
). Maybe if I was in the middle of no-where I might have done, but I wouldn't be able to enjoy the ride. I suppose I'm with Burnspot and Big Sky, I'd have plugged it in an emergency. I have plugged simple punctures before and ridden with no issues
Now, dcarver, you're trying to get me into trouble. I'm in enough of that as it is, SWHTPS is already annoyed by the cost (£130, that's $200 US). I know she's annoyed. I could tell when she phoned me, and went very quiet when I told her. And when she's annoyed, life becomes somewhat precarious. (My regular readers will know that I fear her wrath more than death itself.)
Anyway, I persuaded Son to take my wheel into a local shop, they fitted a new tyre, I'll put the wheel back on tomorrow morning (it was raining cats and dogs and the bike's too close to the garage door to work on it without getting me very wet).
Wheel with nice new tyre, ready to put on bike.
Gixxer - Bugnatr is quite right, the front tyre runs over the nail, flicks it up, into the back tyre it goes. That's why the vast majority of punctures are in the rear wheel.
rushes - I'm not changing my pseudonym now, I've owned this one too long, and at my age I'd forget the new one. But, yes, in that sense I was lucky it became apparent when at home. It's just the inconvenience of Her being away with the car, so me having to get Son, in his lunch hour, to pick me and the tyre up, run them to the shop, where he dumped me to get back to work, while I walked the few miles back home. Well, I could have caught a couple of buses, but the exercise was probably good for me. He then picked it up after work and brought it back to me. I was certainly lucky that he was able to do it. I hate having to rely on others like that.
Must remember to check my brakes aren't binding. The last time I got a new tyre, my balance test run ended up with my front brakes destroyed.
Glad I didn't meet your friends, Beemerdons. Don't they have any ladies in their gangs? Or are they Forum members?
Plug it and ride? Don't think so. One of the staple's ends was pointing into the sidewall of the tyre. No way of knowing what damage it might have caused, and I don't fancy ionbeam's experience of a rapid deflation, particularly when the most likely time would be when I was leaned over in a corner (we have those around where I live
Now, dcarver, you're trying to get me into trouble. I'm in enough of that as it is, SWHTPS is already annoyed by the cost (£130, that's $200 US). I know she's annoyed. I could tell when she phoned me, and went very quiet when I told her. And when she's annoyed, life becomes somewhat precarious. (My regular readers will know that I fear her wrath more than death itself.)
Anyway, I persuaded Son to take my wheel into a local shop, they fitted a new tyre, I'll put the wheel back on tomorrow morning (it was raining cats and dogs and the bike's too close to the garage door to work on it without getting me very wet).
Wheel with nice new tyre, ready to put on bike.
Gixxer - Bugnatr is quite right, the front tyre runs over the nail, flicks it up, into the back tyre it goes. That's why the vast majority of punctures are in the rear wheel.
rushes - I'm not changing my pseudonym now, I've owned this one too long, and at my age I'd forget the new one. But, yes, in that sense I was lucky it became apparent when at home. It's just the inconvenience of Her being away with the car, so me having to get Son, in his lunch hour, to pick me and the tyre up, run them to the shop, where he dumped me to get back to work, while I walked the few miles back home. Well, I could have caught a couple of buses, but the exercise was probably good for me. He then picked it up after work and brought it back to me. I was certainly lucky that he was able to do it. I hate having to rely on others like that.
Must remember to check my brakes aren't binding. The last time I got a new tyre, my balance test run ended up with my front brakes destroyed.
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