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More options 12 May, 22:24

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From: "Beav" <beavis.origi...@ntlwoxorld.com>

Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:24:20 +0100

Local: Mon 12 May 2008 22:24

Subject: Re: My bike is heavier

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"cat" <h...@tehre.com> wrote in message

news:4828abd5$0$2475$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk...

> Beav wrote:
>> "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 :-)

> Ok, so I'm on the train again tomorrow. The nail is still in the tire.
> 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.

'Course yu could. Remove naily object with pliers, squirt glue into hole and
install plug on insertion tool. Blather some glue on the plug and push into
hole. The glue acts as a lubricant, so it's easy to get full penetration.
Withdrawal of tool leaves the plug in place.

It's a bit like ... nah, I won't got here :)

> I really am strapped for cash,

It's a LOT cheaper to plug a tyre than buy a new one. About 15 quid for your
basic plug kit and about 30 quid for one with all the cyclinders for
roadside blow-up's. If you're at home, you don't need the cylinders as you
can use a foot pump borrowed from a neighbour. (They all have one somewhere)

>I'm committed to a rather expensive educational procedure so I can't say
>I'm keen to just hand over my inexperience to an expensive tire repairer.
>But, I'm also not completely arrogant about my abilities.

You could do this.

> Googling finds me the kits, but not much in the way of instructions or
> step by step guides before I commit myself. As things stand, I've done a
> few miles on this nail and it's not let the air out, so feasibly I can
> still ride it to a mendy place if I don't have the bottle to pull the nail
> and use a kit.

Any tyre replacement emporium will repair it in seconds and for bugger all
real money.

> I own nothing like tire levers, or bits for getting the wheel out of the
> swingarm, so if this has to be done from the inside, I can stop typing.

The plug kit repairs are all done from the outside. Tyre places will do it
from the inside though.

> Would you mind giving me the idiot's/girl's guide to this?

See above :-)

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Beav

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