Puncture repairs

[NTECUK]

I can see it. But would I hope over the fence and nick it .......

[SoulKiss]

Stolen wood burns better

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Yawn, this old one again...

See here

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=135862

and here

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=135862

Admitantly it makes it more impressive if you post 2 links but it only works if you link two differnt ones

[NTECUK]

Will wait and see if Dave comes up trumps.
How much in weight.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Owenski

Admitantly it makes it more impressive if you post 2 links but it only works if you link two differnt ones

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Yawn, this old one again...

See here

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=154978

and here

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=135862

Don't know what you are talking about

[jambo]

Originally Posted by Bordtea

But how can it go wrong? I've got a puncture that's not ridiculous, goes down maybe 10psi in 24 hours so it's not a potential blowout. If the puncture repair failed, the tyre isn't going to blow on me at 70mph, it's just going to carry back on as normal, deflating at 10psi per 24 hours surely?

I stand to be corrected though.

I'm afraid it's not quite that simple.

The tyre is removed, and the offending article removed, leaving a small hole. This small hole is probably too small to accept the bung that will fix it, and anyway, the sides may be jagged. Often the tyre shop will drill the hole out to the correct size and then fit a patch / bung from the inside, and cut it to length. This is completely safe and standard, but the hole that now exists is not the same as the one at the start, so if it were to fail the air loss could be greater than that of the original puncture.

Again, this spectacularly unlikely, and I've happily done thousands of miles and track days on professionally repaired tyres using the above method without any issue at all.

Jambo

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Don't know what you are talking about

ha, I predicted your move so quoted your orginal... I learnt that from you lol

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Owenski

ha, I predicted your move so quoted your orginal... I learnt that from you lol

Now go build your own Lightsabre

You will note that I didn't edit my original faux-pas, just the version I quoted

[NTECUK]

You can allways fix it your self.
Then if it goes t###s up you can haunt yourself

Whad'ya know - In they same town with the same problem and ended up at the same place. My mate's DL, not my SV thankfully. I ended up doing the do though as I have a car and he just has a unicycle

'Ride In' in Reading will do repairs as well but I couldn't get there before they sloped off for their early Monday close so it's being dropped at Nick's tonight and I'll scoop it up on my way home tomorrow.