Another bloody puncture

Originally Posted by Bluepete

If you had HID's, you would have been able to see the screw and avoid it!

Pete

I would have been blinded by the reflection off it, you mean.

put a powerfull magnet either side on the front rim to scoop up all screws, brought to you by Viz magazine

Originally Posted by bluefishman

put a powerfull magnet either side on the front rim to scoop up all screws, brought to you by Viz magazine

No, no, no, strap one of those small Dysons to the front to suck them all up. And it will stop your Versys looking...well, looking like a Versys!

Or remove the magnet some wag at the factory obviously hid in your rear wheel! Seriously unlucky, Lozzo!

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i can never really work out how screws end in tyres so often. I mean - who leaves screws lying about on highways and even if random screws ended up falling from a works van into the road, they would in all probability fall on their side. Then in the small probability you run directly over one, the angles would surely mean that you'd ride over it lengthways and carry on your merry way. Maybe that would kick it up for the back, seeing it fall just at the correct angle to be caught under the following tyre to press directly on it with enough leverage to dig into the tyre and not slide off at an angle, but the chances would surely be heavily in your favour that it would land at any other angle and not dig in, thus once again allowing you to carry on your merry way.

so far i've been lucky in all my years driving etc never to have come across it but with all the steps of small probability it seems to happen more regularly than it should

Originally Posted by cccsssddd

i can never really work out how screws end in tyres so often. I mean - who leaves screws lying about on highways and even if random screws ended up falling from a works van into the road, they would in all probability fall on their side. Then in the small probability you run directly over one, the angles would surely mean that you'd ride over it lengthways and carry on your merry way. Maybe that would kick it up for the back, seeing it fall just at the correct angle to be caught under the following tyre to press directly on it with enough leverage to dig into the tyre and not slide off at an angle, but the chances would surely be heavily in your favour that it would land at any other angle and not dig in, thus once again allowing you to carry on your merry way.

so far i've been lucky in all my years driving etc never to have come across it but with all the steps of small probability it seems to happen more regularly than it should

You know you've just jinxed yourself, don't you?!

ive got a question, when was the last time you saw a road sweeper?

Im glad there's two pictures to acompany this story. Didnt have a clue what a screw in a tyre looked like til I saw them.

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i thought about the jinxing as soon as i was posting so we'll see if it does come true. No sabotaging my tyres border patrol to make me paranoid

you're right on that one AndyBrad, never see them and they certainly hadn't been when i lowsided on loads of grit in the middle of a road on a bend (gone now thought duh) but it still just baffles me as to why these 'foreign objects' get in the road in the first place to need cleaning up!

Bad luck Lozzo. I'm almost reluctant to ask a man of your mechanical calibre, but are you sure you've been running correct tyre pressures?

[TamSV]

I used to work in a tyre garage when I was a young lad and saw all sorts of stuff that managed to get into tyres.

The strangest was a customer who had a blow out on the motorway in his car. There was a big gash in the sidewall of the tyre and, when we took it off, there was a 10 inch adjustable spanner inside. We'd fitted that tyre and we weren't missing a spanner so, wherever it came from, it had been going quick enough to punch its way through the tyre.