Er, that's not right!!

I have had a bit of a run of stuff of late ... first off I got a nail in my tyre ... put another wheel/tyre on ... my numberplate snapped that same day ... its about a week later now and I noticed something on my tyre when I went to ride my bike off ... at first I thought it was a bit of tape stuck to it ... but on closer inspection it turned out to be this ....

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That's not goood!! ... I guess that explains the bust numberplate ... I must have had a tyre-numberplate interface at some point ...

It's pretty deep, so it has killed the tyre - I'll get round to changing it over at some point (2 dead tyres in as many days ) but bearing in mind I have been riding it like that (blissfully unaware) for a little while now, I'll keep doing so until I get round to doing the change! Its a bit of a shocker and well deep, but hey!!

Spot of superglue - that'll do the trick Unlucky at £110 (or thereabouts) a shot!!

When you got nailed did you have to replace the tyre or could it be fixed?

Just noticed a nail in my rear (tyre) too this morning........

I'm quickly realising that biking is not as cheap as I thought!

I've done 4000 miles on a tyre like that! (Can't afford a change of tyres yet!) - in exaclty the same scenario. Needed to buy a 7x5 plate to stop it happening!

Originally Posted by krhall

When you got nailed did you have to replace the tyre or could it be fixed?

Just noticed a nail in my rear (tyre) too this morning........

I'm quickly realising that biking is not as cheap as I thought!

Nails can usually be patched, and from previous conversations with Blue, he has the ability to do this himself (it's not recommended though).

Personally, I get it done by the manufacturer for free. But that's just because my local tyre shop are nice like that.

Blue, all you need now is to hit a stone wrong cranked over in a corner & you're hugging an armco. IMO, not worth the risk, but it's your head.

Originally Posted by krhall

When you got nailed did you have to replace the tyre or could it be fixed?

Just noticed a nail in my rear (tyre) too this morning........

I'm quickly realising that biking is not as cheap as I thought!

I had my own method of fixing it (that I am evidently not allowed to tell you about ) but when I attempted to do it, I botched it (tried to do it with tyre still 1/2 on the rim and worked cack handed so it went wrong ), so ended up discarding the tyre and just using another one ... the one we see now damaged here!

Although I am not able to tell you my ‘free’ method, an ‘official’ mushroom type repair many garage will do for you are the best bet if the tyre is new (ish) I have run ‘proper’ repairs in car and bike tyres without issue and would not hesitate to run another if I wasn’t even too tight fisted to do that!!

Originally Posted by Baph

...Blue, all you need now is to hit a stong wrong cranked over in a corner & you're hugging an armco. IMO, not worth the risk, but it's your head.

Is that a Chinese stone!!?!?!?

I'll get it changed, but it is right in the middle of the tread ... its most likely to fail when upright ...

Originally Posted by skint

Spot of superglue - that'll do the trick Unlucky at £110 (or thereabouts) a shot!!

Great minds ... I did hunt down my pushbike 'puncture repair' glue ... but it had gone off!!!

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Is that a Chinese stone!!?!?!?

I'll get it changed, but it is right in the middle of the tread ... its most likely to fail when upright ...

Talking to someone about one thing, whilst typing about another thing is a recepie for disaster Edited the post.

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super glue...im indoors said that too, i told him don't be so silly, mind you the yellow one had a similar hole on the rear, it stayed there for a very very lot of miles and with two up too.i kept expecting it to go but it never did, i couldn't afford to replace tyres at that time and i thought it jolly lucky it stayed as it was