Blowout

[Lupine Lacuna]

What are the consequences of a blowout on a motorbike? Disasterous? Ie,much worse than a car?

What can be done to eradicate all of the risk of the factors under your control?

[anthony_r6]

Front wheel goes at motorway speed, it's not going to be pretty.

For you, I'd recommend popping a wheelie and riding one wheel to a stand still. Someone of your 1337 status would have no trouble reacting to a blow out with a wheelie
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[Marmalade]

I a tyre is in a position to have a blow out there is nothing you can do to avoid. No tyre foam or puncture sealant is going to do anything.

If rear one goes you'll usually stay on, if in a very rare case a front gives out you'll be be coming off.
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[Tenantry13]

Got new tyer two weeks ago before the IOM last one had two punctures in it that had be repaired. Had been riding that one for a while but thought I'd better get it sorted before my trip.

Now back and 2nd day got a screw in my new rear tyer. Not happy had it repaired for £10. Still not a happy chappy. Blow out could happen but can't afford a new tyer atm.

[Pol Anorl]

Well at a top speed of 30, not too bad youll probably roll off into the sea so its fine.
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[salty21]

i had the rear blow out on the SP-1 at about 60mph after the front wheel flicked up a piece of slate and wedged it at a perfect angle under the rear tyre which left a 4 inch gash across it. It sounded like a firework going off and i thought i'd blown the engine or something.

Wasnt much drama at all to be honest, nowhere near as bad as you think it would be. I wouldnt fancy my chances if the front went at anything over 30mph though
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[Fisty]

thought it had been a while.
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[Piercee100]

Had a rear blow on me whilst riding downhill flat out on my little H100 (about 70mph). The bang nearly gave me a heart attack followed by much side to side wobbling as I came to a stop. I felt that if I grabbed the brake I would have been thrown off so despite the shear terror of not knowing what what going on, I had to let it slow down of its own accord praying the whole time not to get thrown into the path of oncoming traffic.

The front would have been nasty.
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[P.addy]

I crashed going round a corner when my tyre went from 40psi to 0 in a second Valve actually gave up, considered a blow out? Either way I got away with a scuff to my trousers at 60mph

[NeiljohnUK]

[_matt]

had my rear innertube blow twice from nails and replaced it twice (both blows at low speeds, less than 20 mph so no trouble), i dont really know how this has affected the Tyre tho, seems fine after 7k miles and 2 blown tubes.

[Rogerborg]

[garth]

I've had a rear go down to 0psi at 130, I'm still here.

I even rode it back home like it. That was entertaining.

[Walloper]

[EazyDuz]

[Walloper]

[garth]

Alright smart arses, it went flat pretty fucking quickly, better?

It was a bit sketchy and had it been the front I would've gone down, but it's alot more controllable at the rear.

[c-m]

Had a front tyre blow out and produce a massive hole/tear about the size of a five pound note while doing 80mph on the autoroute.

Result was that the steering got very heavy and the handlebars shook.

Quite easily managed to slow down and pull over though, wasn't even a brown trousers moment. Fortunately the I was going in a straight line at the time.

I imagine a blowout from the sidewall would be different.
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[Skudd]

Had a few rear blow outs with one being at 80mph two up. Just like riding on ice, Only had one go on the front but that wa low speed and was an oops and stop. All have been with tubed tyres.
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[NeiljohnUK]

Thinking about it, 20 years ago I had a rear wheel go at 80 plus on a fully loaded R80RTIC (ex-job bike) two up, a bit like riding on ice, on the M62 at 8am on a bank holiday Monday. The RAC sent a man at ~9:30 with a van who took the wheel and returned it 'repaired' around 11:30. Refitted it and got as far as Holmes Chapel when it went down again on a roundabout. Two hours plus in a car dealers show room drinking coffee and this spec. lifter appears, put the bike across the speccys and back to Manchester to have it put on the oldest beaver-tail you've ever seen. Then wait for a driver to turn in for an hour or so, onto the M6 going North to go and refuel before finally heading home to Hampshire, M6 was bad, M5 was stuffed, so we navigated him across country through the Cotswolds and down through Salisbury plain, saving atleast 6 hours going by the traffic reports, finally off-loaded at 2am. Put the spare from my R60/6 in it for the last 1/2 mile home as he couldn't get near our place, numpty cagers blocking the road as usual, stripped the rim to find the tube pinched, arsehole tyre fitter had caused the second flat...

ALL the recent rear flats have been tubeless tyres with screws and other 'stuff' stuck in the tyre, so I reckon most if not all punctures are probably caused by lack of road cleaning, J5 M27 is a prime example, and builders etc not giving a dam about loosing stuff on the road these days. Avoiding filtering on areas where cages don't sweep helps!

[Kradmelder]

I would think most of them can be attributed to the rider's own fault:

Excessive wear on tyres
Underinflated tyres, which causes pinch out
Impacts with solid objects at excessive speed
Exceeding speed or load rating of tyre

So the best solution is prevention. Check your tyre pressures and adjust to the load and road conditions, don't ride your tyres down to the minimum tread depth

Dont buy cheapo tyres.
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[NeiljohnUK]

[Kradmelder]

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[garth]

Sorry, what?

I don't think an insurance company would refuse a payout for 2psi over stock.

I only check mine when things start to feel a bit odd.