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20-07-11, 03:09 PM
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Another bloody puncture
The fourth one on this bike in 2 1/2 years. I went 31 years with only one puncture before I bought this bike, and now have yet another one - this time a phillips screw right in the centre of the tread of my almost new (800miles) Michelin Pilot Road 3. I got two in the rear of the original Dunlop and another 18 months later in the front Pirelli when I was in Malta before this one
I'm beginning to think this bloody bike is tyre-cursed.  
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20-07-11, 03:15 PM
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Re: Another bloody puncture
Thats a fecker!
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20-07-11, 04:31 PM
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Re: Another bloody puncture
If you had HID's, you would have been able to see the screw and avoid it!
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20-07-11, 04:42 PM
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Re: Another bloody puncture
Thats a shame, why dont you see if the place you got the tyre form will do a warranty replacement on it for you?
Given the location there should be no reason why you can get a puncture repair done to it either |
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20-07-11, 07:32 PM
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Re: Another bloody puncture
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20-07-11, 07:48 PM
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Re: Another bloody puncture
welll......if you'd have bought Avons, you coulda got another tyre for free, seeing as though you only done 800 miles
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20-07-11, 08:10 PM
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Re: Another bloody puncture
that's a £30'r. I had exactly the same about 3 years ago and got it repaired within the hour
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20-07-11, 08:27 PM
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Re: Another bloody puncture
And the moral of the story is--------
DON'T RIDE OVER SCREWS  Always seems to happen on new tyres,just a bit of bad luck and one of the joys of biking |
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20-07-11, 08:30 PM
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Re: Another bloody puncture
It's in the centre, what's the problem? 5minute repair or 20-30 mins if you want it doing a bit better.
I had a stanley blade through the side the other month (under a pile of leaves outside my house  ) and a screw luckily in the centre the week or two before.
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20-07-11, 09:12 PM
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Re: Another bloody puncture
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My problem is I hadn't had any punctures from April 1978 until May 2005, and then none from then until I bought this bike in March 2009 and got a puncture 2 weeks later. Since then I've had two more in rear tyres and one in the front. It's like my bike is a puncture magnet. |
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