The simple puncture repair kit.

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I bet even somebody who’s got their arms growing out the backside, should be able to plug the hole with this kit. I am not sure what the speed limit of the rapid would be, but it would certainly get you home or at least to a nearest proper puncture repair shop or motorcycle dealership.

I’ve come across this video on YouTube. The bloke does ramble on a bit, a bit like a broken record. Not sure I’d want to bugger about with a bicycle pump though.

 
Assuming the widgets are just self-tappers smothered in rubber glue, I've used them successfully. As for pumping a rear tyre from flat to 2.9 bar using a "pump" that looks like he won it in a Christmas cracker...
 
Had those. Couldn’t get them to work. Actually he would have got home if he left the self tapper in there. I’ve had a few punctures in my time. For pumping up I use a Dacia/Renault electric pump that’s supplied instead of a spare. Only has a 8 amp draw so doesn’t trip the fuse it the magic fuse on the canbus. The small pump he is carrying is a bit too minimal for my liking. And he is carrying tiny tyre levers that wouldn’t be any use at all. JJH
 
Had a screw in the tyre once, unscrewed it… air came out, screwed it back in and got home. :)

A standard bacon strip (or similar) fix will last forever. Done it several times on the bikes, a few times on cars (more difficult to reach the tyre on cars). On bikes it is fairly easy, I wouldn’t bother with these temporary alternatives to be honest.

Btw, the xiaomi electric pump is gold.
Always with me when traveling.
 
I've used a Stop and Go mushrro kit loads of times but I've recently added the screw type and some string/rats tails after a student I was with had a slit in their tyre that the plug wouldn't seal.

The pump in the video is pointless, maybe when I was 14 I might have had a fast enough wrist action to pump up a bike tyre but I think I'll stick to my Airman one.

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This is the plastic (or at least it looks plastic) version of the old 70’s / 80’s motorcycle couriers’ trick of screwing a self-tapping screw into any puncture. Some lasted as long as the tyre.
 
punctures come in many shapes and sizes and I have used these with a sticky string put the string in first and then put one of these in between the 2 ends of the string and screw it in flush
 
Wapping said:
This is the plastic (or at least it looks plastic) version of the old 70’s / 80’s motorcycle couriers’ trick of screwing a self-tapping screw into any puncture. Some lasted as long as the tyre.
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I think they are steel, looking at the one he rode home on it is all shiny now. The main problem with this is the amount of people that will see it and ask "did you know you have a puncture?" WIth a black sticky string think it is almost invisible after a couple of miles.

Here's one I picked up last Saturday night in the car, sounded and felt like the car was tap dancing all the 20 odd miles back home. Unscrewed it with an 8mm socket bunged in a sticky string to last until I replace the tyre in a couple of months.
 

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I carry a bike pump on the bike. Small, always available, doesn't kill the battery, doesn't blow fuses doubling your problem.... I've never had a puncture out on the road (so far!!) but it's comforting knowing I have the kit to fix it if I do. I really don't mind the idea of 5 minutes using a bike pump, rather than the expense, battery/fuse concerns/space needed for an electric solution.

I am a bit analogue all round, though, I do admit that.
 
I am not sure five minutes of hand pump action would deal with many car tyres or motorcycle rear tyres. The hand pump might also get bloody hot. Report back, when you have experimented, as I have never tried.
 
Sticky string and air cannisters worked for me on the 1290 and lasted over 1,000 miles until I wore out the tyre :)



 
I've used the Michelin foot pump for many years - mostly at trackdays to re-adjust pressure at the end of the day. Couple of times with a flat tyre. The single barrel would take a bit more than 5 mins to re-inflate. Not sure a hand pump has the same flow rate.

The Xiaomi electric pump was a happy purchase to be fair :D
 
Wapping said:
I am not sure five minutes of hand pump action would deal with many car tyres or motorcycle rear tyres. The hand pump might also get bloody hot. Report back, when you have experimented, as I have never tried.
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It does get rather warm pumping bicycle tyre, let alone car or motorcycle tyres.
 
The guy who services my car is also a biker and an IAM observer. Last time I was there, he gave me a few of these or similar. I put them in the toolbox of the GS and forgot about them. A week or so ago, I noticed the car's rear, nearside tyre was flat! Bugger!. I jacked it up, removed the wheel and sure enough, there was a shard of metal stuck into the middle of the tread.

Out came the StopnGo but I simply could not force the plug far enough through. A lightbulb moment - those screws? I fired one in and the tyre is still maintaining pressure.

The car goes in for its service tomorrow so it'll be a new tyre, probably two, but I'm pretty impressed with such a simple fix!
 
Nippy Normans supply Touratech, Wunderlich, Desert Fox and many other makes of accessories.
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