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[killa]

Bought two tyres last week, Bridgestone Battlax, if you remeber yesterdays post of the glass all over the road where i put my bike in a lock up. Well, the glass i swept up, but as i put the bike in i checked the tyres.
I can see what looks like the head of a nail, one of those ones with the small head not a flat one.

WTF can i do??? I dont get paid for ages and i am all out of money.
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[LustyLew]

Get em plugged. (About £15 if I recall).

I used to commute on my old bike every day. That had Battlax's on, at any one time, I'd have 2 plugs and at least 3 nails in them. Rarely did over 50 so I took the chance.

Oh, I'd suggest 'Tyre Slime' too.
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[SteWhit]

Remove the nail and get some tire slime - it works for a quick repair job until you can afford to have the puncture fixed. That only costs like £15 to fix punctures tho...

[killa]

Crikey, I didn’t know there were any options at all.
Cheers guys.
What the hell is a plug, and does it only work at low speed then?
Puncture repair sounds good, how does that work?
If I left It in the tyre, what would happen?
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[SteWhit]

If you leave it in chances are it'll go flat - slowly - Plugs are small bits of rubber they put in the hole to plug it - not too sure if they are a permanent fix or not tho. Where is the nail? If it's in the centre of the tyre they can fix it - if it's the side your in trouble.

[Suzuki]

A plug is a permanent fix if done properly.

I had a massive bolt through my rear tyre about a week after it was put on. Took it to the garage, and they fixed it for me. Took the tyre off, plugged it from the inside, put it back on - good as new!

I've done 155mph on the plugged tyre, without consequence.

Go get it fixed!
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[killa]

Yeah pretty much dead centre.
It is a very small one.
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[Suzuki]

[paulthewitt]

you my friend are unlucky!
sorry to hear the bad news. maybe plug it and ride carefully

[Kickstart]

Hi

There are limits on what can be repaired, but with a single small puncture in the middle you should be fine.

What they use looks like a small cocktail umbrella, with the fan out bit being rubber and the stem being part metal and part rubber. They bore the hole out a bit, thread the stem through the hole and pull it through so the umbrella bit surrounds the hole. It is then all bonded in place.

I think it is against the British Standards to repair a Z rated tyre, but people will ignore that and you probably have an H rated tyre anyway.

If you are lucky the it is not actually a nail or is just the very end and has not gone through.

All the best

Keith
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[killa]

Well nice!!
Just been out for a fag, I had another look at the thing, I picked at it with a key and it turned out to be a bit of swarf!
Cheers for all the info
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