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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #15 on: June 30, 2008, 10:52:03 PM »
Luck was with me coming home from Myrtle beach. I blew out my rear tire on I95 and was able to limp to a truck stop. I had no repair kit and just lucked out and bought a standard plug kit for a car. Plugged and filled with air pump at the stop. Up and Going in 15 min down I95 at 75......now I carry a kit. The tire only had 2k miles, but I replaced. no sense being stupid for $150.
Gave the tire to a cheap skate in our group, he was offended that I would throw away. Better him than me....
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #16 on: June 30, 2008, 10:56:54 PM »
Quote from: FLHTCUSE3 on June 30, 2008, 10:52:03 PM
Luck was with me coming home from Myrtle beach. I blew out my rear tire on I95 and was able to limp to a truck stop. I had no repair kit and just lucked out and bought a standard plug kit for a car. Plugged and filled with air pump at the stop. Up and Going in 15 min down I95 at 75......now I carry a kit. The tire only had 2k miles, but I replaced. no sense being stupid for $150.
Gave the tire to a cheap skate in our group, he was offended that I would throw away. Better him than me....
Yeah, the service writer at the dealer asked me if I wanted the bad tire back.  Huh?  What the hell for!
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #17 on: July 01, 2008, 01:10:34 AM »
Well, I gotta say.....   YOU SCREWED UP.  You shoulda kept that tire with the plug in 'till it was wore slap out. I mean right down to the cord, maybe past a ways.  I've done it with every tire I ever had a flat or punture on and never had a safety problem...   It's the most satisfying act of defiance there is...   

Here's how you do it. 

1. Plug the tire.

2. Pump it up. 

3. Ride gingerly to the dealer with ALL your friends in tow. (they'll wanna watch part of this)

4. Make sure they've got your tire in stock and can install immediately.

5. March proudly out the the lot and BURN THAT F##KER TO THE CORD!!!! (hoot loudly with glee during this part, no one can hear ya anyway)   

6. Don't forget to stop when it blows or you'll make a mess of the rim. (It's easy to get excited and miss this part...)

7. Then get that old worn out tire replaced while that big chit eatin' grin slowly mellows!  What the heck, the tire was worn out anyway, right?   (don't forget to tip the shop kid that peels the rubber out of the inside of the fender for you while the tech has the wheel out.  He's earnin' his keep that day!)
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2008, 10:22:54 AM »
Just had a masonry nail in my tire. The only good thing,it had 5000 miles on it and didn't go flat!
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #19 on: July 08, 2008, 10:38:48 AM »
Anyone here of this theory...........
Why is it that the rear tire is almost always the tire that gets the nail?
The front tire gets to it first?

The theory is that the front tire is an accomplice..... it picks up the nail or screw laying down and flings it in front of rear tire.
now the object is airborne and has a very good chance of hitting the rear tire with the point and the ground drives it in....
at first I thought this is just a tale, but after thinking about it, it made some sense.

Especially the part about always being a rear tire......

Anyone else buy into this logic?
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #20 on: July 08, 2008, 12:13:41 PM »
Quote from: FLHTCUSE3 on July 08, 2008, 10:38:48 AM
Anyone here of this theory...........
Why is it that the rear tire is almost always the tire that gets the nail?
The front tire gets to it first?

The theory is that the front tire is an accomplice..... it picks up the nail or screw laying down and flings it in front of rear tire.
now the object is airborne and has a very good chance of hitting the rear tire with the point and the ground drives it in....
at first I thought this is just a tale, but after thinking about it, it made some sense.

Especially the part about always being a rear tire......

Anyone else buy into this logic?

I've heard this theory a lot.  Maybe we should put it to the Discovery channel Mythbusters program to prove or disprove.
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #21 on: July 08, 2008, 12:51:20 PM »
I think this is true, especially if the nail or screw has a head on it...front tire flips it upright after running over the head, then rear tire gets the point.
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #22 on: July 08, 2008, 02:54:23 PM »
That does it. I'm going to start driving backwards. THE MUFFMAN
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #23 on: July 08, 2008, 03:05:13 PM »
Yeah, riding sideways would not make any sense......

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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #24 on: July 08, 2008, 08:33:50 PM »
My only flat so far was on my Speed Triple.  We have this open back road a couple miles from here and I was slowing down from a spirited run.  Dropping through a hundred I felt this little wiggle - that was strange I thought since the thing was always dead stable - at about forty it started oscillating, slower frequency but greater amplitude as the speed dropped.  A Michelin Hi-Sport with about a thousand miles on it and a screw in the tread.  They are ridiculously wide so it wasn't coming off the rim so I rode it home at about fifteen miles an hour, crab-walking from one side to the other as the tire rolled one way then the other, with images of what would have happened had it come apart at speed.  Expensive tires those.  Even after riding on it flat for two miles it later held together with a plug in it for the fifty miles to the Triumph dealer.  I'm a believer in Michelins now. 
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2008, 05:08:06 AM »
Quote from: iski on July 08, 2008, 03:05:13 PM
Yeah, riding sideways would not make any sense......



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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #26 on: July 19, 2008, 06:30:18 PM »
Well, I caught a nail today...and it is a weird one...how about in AND out!  Was riding in Middletown, CT heading to Bridgport...start hearing a new noise but could not find a cause....continued on and about 30 miles later, I hear a clang noise and then no more noise...get to Bridgeport, cant find anything.  Heading home, stop at a 95 rest area in Branford to get some water.  Walking back to the bike, I see something on the tire...a nail!

Well, we are 125 miles from home but I also know the tire is still full and we had just done mabe 100 miles with the spike so we hop back on and head home...I choose to sat on 95 as opposed to the planned backroads...here are a couple of picks:

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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #27 on: July 19, 2008, 06:31:16 PM »
I am at 7900 miles of a usual 10K...need to replace this sometime soon!

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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #28 on: July 19, 2008, 06:33:04 PM »
zooming in...
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Re: F'ing nail!
« Reply #29 on: July 19, 2008, 06:34:08 PM »
Tire was at 48 PSI when we got home...it was hot out there today!
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