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Newsgroups: uk.rec.motorcycles
From: cat <h...@tehre.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:43:01 +0100
Local: Mon 12 May 2008 21:43
Subject: Re: My bike is heavier
Beav wrote: Ok, so I'm on the train again tomorrow. The nail is still in the tire. > "Eddie" <ed...@deguello.org> wrote in message > news:kuflf5-8mo.ln1@deguello.org... >> Beav wrote: >>> National Tyres should be able to fixate on you Cat. they may even sort >>> your tyre out. If not, then a repair kit (which you should always have >>> with you anyway) will probably do it. Plugs and a tube of glue with a >>> couple of little air cylinders usually come in the kits and they're >>> bloody good. >> ... unless it's a kit that you've owned for ~9+ years and never needed to >> use, until one day when you discover you've got a puncture, and you've got >> to be somewhere in a hurry, so you could really do without the hassle, >> then you discover that the plugs have perished and the tyre won't hold >> air, so you ride with the flat over to your friendly local mechanic who >> takes the tyre off, at which point you discover that the hole you were >> repairing wasn't actually the one that was letting the air out in the >> first place. Pah. > Well there is that :-) I don't really understand how the plug kits operate, or if someone with arms like mine could deliver a plug into the depth of a tire and retract any kind of stabby tool. I really am strapped for cash, I'm committed to a rather expensive Googling finds me the kits, but not much in the way of instructions or I own nothing like tire levers, or bits for getting the wheel out of the You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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