380mile old Tyres V's a Screw

[Tango675]

Gutted,

Was out on the bike today enjoying the sun. Decided to go to On-Ya-Bike in Aylesbury and on the way picked up a screw in my back tyre. The tyre was about 2 months old and I had done 380 miles. On-Ya-bike said they woudn't plug it (apparently most places don't these days) but they had a new back tyre in stock. £120 quid
They did fit it then and there though, which was good of them as they are not a tyre specalist.
Gutted that I have had to replace the tyre so soon though.

Whats the lowest milage you have had before having to replace a tyre due to misforture? (just to make me feel better )
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Somebody give that windup merchant a torque wrench..

[MaybeGuy]

i passed an MOT and still have a nail in my tyre... was it really neccessary?
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[gmanxiii]

hmmm depends on where you had the nail i think whether they decide to plug it or not, i picked up a nail in my rear few weeks back and it went in at a funny angle, but my tyre man still managed to plug it and its been fine since.
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[MarJay]

Was it an avon tyre? they do some sort of offer where if its still within the first 1mm of tread, they replace the tyre for free....
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[Tango675]

[MaybeGuy]

fair enough, i suppose safety is better than saving money.

personally i would have screwed in a slightly larger screw and left it at that. but look at my bikes, all bodged wrecked shells of things
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[Tango675]

[D O G]

[MaybeGuy]

i was being serious, but remember the state of my GSXR400...
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Blue_SV650S wrote: it was a sh1te wheelie, but it proves that he can get it up in 3rd and can do angles. In summery, mattsprattuk is a gobby little sh1tebag, dopehead tw4t, but sadly for all of us, he probably isn't THAT full of sh1te!!
Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

[Fisty]

0.5 miles on sunday

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=134119
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[Tango675]

[Timmeh]

I've got a diddy plasterboard nail in the centre of my rear 2CT. It's only 20mm by 1mm so I'm going to leave it in there, as plugging it would create more damage.

It's gelled in place but has a tiny air leak so I have to pump it up every day but hey, even ragging it to Boxy and back last sunday didn't seem to hurt it.



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[Itchy]

a ride in ride out tyre repair is only £20 from BTS,

bring 'em loose and its a £11 repair!,
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[ms51ves3]

I've had a screw in my rear scooter tyre since I bought it. I've clocked up 600 miles with it in and who knows how many miles the last owner did.
I don't lose any tyre pressure so I've just left it.

[Tango675]

All of a sudden I feel old and sensible.

**Thinks of ways to address this **
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Somebody give that windup merchant a torque wrench..

[McGee]

Bah I had it happen within 50 miles.

Bastards wouldn't even do me a deal even though I have spent over 10,000 there including buying the bike.
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[The Tot]

I am the master of getting nails in tyres.

On my ZXR250 - i literally went down to london from loughborough - 120 miles, went back up, was filtering home on the epinal way (A6) and noticed the next day that it was steering weird. 220 miles, ring my mechanic and said - mate i need a new BT092! He was like i only just fitted it the other day. Took the tyre off and it was like hooked, penetrated at an angle and bent into a U shape so was a double puncture!

On my ZX6R - 400 miles upon owning my new bike - tyres were about 300 miles old - so 700 miles total, slow puncture as a result of a pen nib! i mean FFS.
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[stinkwheel]

Got a nail in the rear BT020 on my VFR within 80 miles earlier this year.
Not just any nail, this was a 4" galvanised nail!.

I pulled it out then fitted one of those stab-through bungs. I took it canny for the first few miles and ikept stopping to check it was ok. Before long I was just riding as normal.

About 400 miles later, I got a second nail in the same tyre. Again, fitted a stab-through bung.

Continued using the tyre until it was dead including a couple of flat-out runs (I mean flat-out, wrong side of 150mph) and protracted riding at three figure speeds.

Had a look in there after the tyre was taken off. Nothing to worry about, all still well in place.

So for a 50mph, 100 mile maximum tyre bung, I'd say they work ok. Friends have done similar.

That said, I can think of no good reason why you can't fit a heavy duty tube in a punctured tyre. My MZ supermoto used to chew its way through a 150 section metzeler MEZ1 every 2.5-3k miles and it had a tube in.

Sure, the tyre will hold the heat more but I can't see this being anything remotely like an issue unless you were pushing it very hard on a track.
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