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Tyre totally flat, pulled out a nail.:mad: Using the puncture repair outfit, the bloody tang snapped off in the tyre.:blast:eek:

On a positive note, this was in my garage.:thumb2
 
ELIMINATOR said:
Tyre totally flat, pulled out a nail.:mad: Using the puncture repair outfit, the bloody tang snapped off in the tyre.:blast:eek:

On a positive note, this was in my garage.:thumb2
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Tried mine once and it was a PIA. I bought the proper repair stuff for use in my garage after seeing a few done badly over the years by the teenage teaboy/apprentice in tyreshops.
 
I have had good success using the rema (BMW) tool to put those sticky string repairs in :thumb2
 
ELIMINATOR said:
which is?
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The tyre off repair tools such as reamer, vulcanising stuff and the mushroom plugs and roller. All off eBay for not very much. Also bought valves and lube and do many of my own changes. Fronts you can static balance, rears you can't, but neither can a few tyre shops.

I had a 2 duff repairs and thought "I can do better than that". For the side of the road things are a bit more tricky but I think i remember some kits that looked more possible than those rubber plugs you get with the BM kits which I tried and failed to get in't tyre...

Either that or the AA:D
 
I´d fid tube in rather than go on drivin with fixed tire. I think that it´s okey in car but wouldn´t dare to do it on a bike. But I sure would use it al long as I managed to fit a tube.
 
Personally I'll never use the glue based repair kit again.. too much like hard work... and so easy to go wrong. the rubber plugs break far too easily
 
Peltsi said:
I´d fid tube in rather than go on drivin with fixed tire. I think that it´s okey in car but wouldn´t dare to do it on a bike. But I sure would use it al long as I managed to fit a tube.
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I have had many tubeless repairs carried out over the years with virtually no problems. I can do them myself and have done again with no probs. It used to be advised not to fit tubes to tubeless rims but that advice may have changed.

Tubeless repairs usually fail due to poor preperation of the inner surface of the tyre. This is pretty obvious stuff easily missed by the average inexperienced teenage tyre apprentice who seems to get the job!

I was reading recently that ZR tyres were not advisable to be repaired.

Also tubes will go down with a nail etc but many times tubeless won't.
 
I had a copper nail in my rear tyre (found at home), first tried the cargol screw repair which went in so far then stripped itself, tried with a second one but that just leaked air. Then tried the rubber bung and rasp tool, rubber bung 1 ripped, rubber bung 2 ripped, then tried sticky string which sort of sealed but not very well.

Had to buy a centre stand and order a new tyre in the end.
 
Wrigsby1 said:
Looks good... It won't feck the tyre for a proper repair either.
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yep.. looks good if all you need is a 'get you home' fix

I see CO2 cartridges.. so a 'get you home'... is all it is. That is no good for my purposes.

I want a 'proper repair' there and then. find and fix the hole.. re inflate the tyre to its full pressure. And carry on.

A 'get you home' is fine here in the UK... but no good at all to me when I'm away on my travels... and so, I wouldn't touch a kit like that with a bargepole.
 
Wrigsby1 said:
Fronts you can static balance, rears you can't, but neither can a few tyre shops.
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If you have the Abba style wheel balancer you need to get the single side adapters to do the rears.

I have just bought them, cost about £30. Just done my mates vfr rear, worked a treat. Not tried it on a bmw wheel yet, but I can't see why it wouldn't work.

Must admit, you guys that fear repaired tyres are tyre company's dream customers. I've repaired and used repaired tyres till worn out on most of my bikes over the years. Some repairs by a local bike shop, some done with my own Rema kits. Have never had any problems, not even loss of pressure. In fact the only one I know that didn't work very well was a mates front that we plugged in Limoge that leaked all the way home. When we took it off there was a huge length of the wire braid loose inside they tyre!! So I've always thought there was something wrong with that tyre anyway. Couldn't see how the length of wire could have come from the tyre being punctured.
 
British standards changed their minds in 1997.. before that repairs to ZR tyres were fine.. afterwards, suddenly, they're not. what changed.?

Michelin are I believe alone in saying a repair is fine in accordance to the previous (to 97) BSI standard.

I couldn't give two hoots.. if the tyre IS fixable.. it gets fixed.
 
Puncture repaired for £20, which included taking the tyre off my airheads rear wheel, wire brushing the corossion off of the inside of the rim, which was causing it to lose pressue over time, and refitting the tyre Sorted:)
 
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