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DaveC
09-08-2005, 02:02 PM
Seems that all my flats are always on the rear and in new tires. Is it karma?
Tourmeister
09-08-2005, 03:28 PM
:tab I get the occasional flat, always the rear. Sometimes it is a new tire and other times it is a tire about to get changed anyway. I just carry a plug kit and CO2. The funny thing is that I rode for the first few years without any tire plugging gear and never got a flat. Shortly after deciding I should quit living on borrowed time and got a kit, I got my first flat :lol: Since then I have had maybe four or five flats in 100K miles of riding. I have repaired a LOT of flats on other people's bikes on group rides. Still, it has always been the rear. I have only seen one bike get a flat front, Achim on his Speed Triple a few years ago. It did not plug very well and he fussed with it all the way back to Austin.

:tab Forget the fancy shmancy plug kits you see in the bike catalogs. Go to Walmart or any conveneince store, and buy the little kits that have the hole reamer and strip plunger tools, strip plugs, and rubber cement. They are less than $10 and work great.

Adios,
WoodButcher
09-08-2005, 03:55 PM
I don't get flats...on my bike. My kids seem to find mesquite thorns with great regularity though. Suprising that I don't get them since I ride a lot of dirt, but I guess I've just been lucky.
Squeaky
09-08-2005, 05:13 PM
:tabI have repaired a LOT of flats on other people's bikes on group rides.

Which reminds me - I owe you some air cartridges. Is there a "standard" size for those? Is it the same as the bibi guns?
Tourmeister
09-08-2005, 05:25 PM
Just like the BB guns...
Gilk51
09-08-2005, 06:00 PM
Which reminds me - I owe you some air cartridges. Is there a "standard" size for those? Is it the same as the bibi guns?

bibi? :confused:

You never got a Red-Ryder for Christmas, did you? :p
Texas T
09-09-2005, 02:19 AM
bibi? :confused:

You never got a Red-Ryder for Christmas, did you? :p
:rofl
thestudent
09-09-2005, 04:40 PM
So far so lucky. I don't carry a kit yet.......

15,000 miles and counting.
Houston Speed Triple
09-11-2005, 10:59 PM
Been riding more than ten years and have only had one. It was on a new (60 miles) bike and it cost me about $350 to replace (fat race tire). I still have the tire and the roofing nail and I intend to plug it so that I'llhave a spare.