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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:30 am
Post subject: What do I do if I get a puncture?
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Sorry if this sounds an obvious question but I am new on the motorcycle
scene.
I have just passed the CBT and bought a Honda Varadero 125cc.
I love riding the bike and have notched up many miles already.
The only thing that concerns me is what do I do if I get a puncture.
Is there some product that you clever people use?
What do you use or am I just in the hands of a relay service?
Am help or advice would be greatly appreciated. |
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:30 am
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On 5 Feb, 09:30, "Dickie Bird" <Dickie Bird@Dickie Bird.popex.net>
wrote:
> Sorry if this sounds an obvious question but I am new on the motorcycle
> scene.
> I have just passed the CBT and bought a Honda Varadero 125cc.
> I love riding the bike and have notched up many miles already.
>
> The only thing that concerns me is what do I do if I get a puncture.
> Is there some product that you clever people use?
> What do you use or am I just in the hands of a relay service?
>
> Am help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
If it has tubeless tyres, one of those aerosol filler things works
quite well as a temporary repair. They never seem to work on tubed
tyres, though. I'd be surprised if a Varadero 125 has tubeless, but
it's easy to check. Just look at the tyre sidewalls.
With tubed tyres, you're generally bollocksed. You need a decent
puncture repair kit (patches, glue, etc), and that's no good without
tyre levers to get the wheel off the rim as well as a pump (or a
handful of those little gas bottles, and I mean a handful, as one or
two is never enough) to re-inflate it afterwards. Oh, and you need the
nous to get the wheel out and back again without messing something up.
And tyre removal is a black art itself (albeit easy to acquire). Carry
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:30 am
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On 5 Feb, 09:30, "Dickie Bird" <Dickie Bird@Dickie Bird.popex.net>
wrote:
> Sorry if this sounds an obvious question but I am new on the motorcycle
> scene.
> I have just passed the CBT and bought a Honda Varadero 125cc.
> I love riding the bike and have notched up many miles already.
>
> The only thing that concerns me is what do I do if I get a puncture.
> Is there some product that you clever people use?
> What do you use or am I just in the hands of a relay service?
>
> Am help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
RAC >> Stay informed about: What do I do if I get a puncture? |
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:15 am
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Dickie Bird wrote:
> Sorry if this sounds an obvious question but I am new on the
> motorcycle scene.
> I have just passed the CBT and bought a Honda Varadero 125cc.
> I love riding the bike and have notched up many miles already.
>
> The only thing that concerns me is what do I do if I get a puncture.
> Is there some product that you clever people use?
> What do you use or am I just in the hands of a relay service?
Don't worry about it. I've had about 3 punctures in the last 10 years, and
one of those was down to a corroded wheelrim gnawing its way through the
inner tube. You're more likely to fall off or get hit by a car.
You can get stuff like Ultraseal, but I haven't bothered. Do you have any
sort of recovery service? >> Stay informed about: What do I do if I get a puncture? |
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:33 am
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Cane says...
> On 5 Feb, 09:30, "Dickie Bird" <Dickie Bird@Dickie Bird.popex.net>
> wrote:
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> > Sorry if this sounds an obvious question but I am new on the motorcycle
> > scene.
> > I have just passed the CBT and bought a Honda Varadero 125cc.
> > I love riding the bike and have notched up many miles already.
> >
> > The only thing that concerns me is what do I do if I get a puncture.
> > Is there some product that you clever people use?
> > What do you use or am I just in the hands of a relay service?
> >
> > Am help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> RAC
<Cue Bear>
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:33 am
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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Cane
<CaneUKRM RemoveThis @gmail.com> typed
>On 5 Feb, 09:30, "Dickie Bird" <Dickie Bird@Dickie Bird.popex.net>
>wrote:
>
>> Sorry if this sounds an obvious question but I am new on the motorcycle
>> scene.
>> I have just passed the CBT and bought a Honda Varadero 125cc.
>> I love riding the bike and have notched up many miles already.
>>
>> The only thing that concerns me is what do I do if I get a puncture.
>> Is there some product that you clever people use?
>> What do you use or am I just in the hands of a relay service?
>>
>> Am help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>RAC
<Bear Mode>
Cunts.
</BM>
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My position was (and, to be honest, largely remains) one of complete ambiguity. >> Stay informed about: What do I do if I get a puncture? |
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:00 am
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Lozzo wrote:
> Cane says...
>> On 5 Feb, 09:30, "Dickie Bird" <Dickie Bird@Dickie Bird.popex.net>
>> wrote:
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>>> Sorry if this sounds an obvious question but I am new on the
>>> motorcycle scene.
>>> I have just passed the CBT and bought a Honda Varadero 125cc.
>>> I love riding the bike and have notched up many miles already.
>>>
>>> The only thing that concerns me is what do I do if I get a puncture.
>>> Is there some product that you clever people use?
>>> What do you use or am I just in the hands of a relay service?
>>>
>>> Am help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> RAC
>
> <Cue Bear>
I don't think Bear would be much use either, not for a puncture. >> Stay informed about: What do I do if I get a puncture? |
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:08 am
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:00:42 GMT, "platypus"
<monotreme RemoveThis @blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Am help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> RAC
>>
>> <Cue Bear>
>
>I don't think Bear would be much use either, not for a puncture.
Which sort of begs the wider question...
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:14 am
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Dickie Bird wrote:
> Sorry if this sounds an obvious question but I am new on the motorcycle
> scene.
> I have just passed the CBT and bought a Honda Varadero 125cc.
> I love riding the bike and have notched up many miles already.
>
> The only thing that concerns me is what do I do if I get a puncture.
> Is there some product that you clever people use?
> What do you use or am I just in the hands of a relay service?
>
> Am help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
I've used Ultraseal type stuff when I thought I had a puncture [1].
Mostly I call the AA.
[1] Great big lump of steel in tyre.
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:14 am
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:19 am
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antonye wrote:
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> platypus wrote:
> >
> > Don't worry about it. I've had about 3 punctures in the last 10 years, and
> > one of those was down to a corroded wheelrim gnawing its way through the
> > inner tube. You're more likely to fall off or get hit by a car.
>
> I've only had one puncture in the last 18 years of riding and
> that was on the track at Assen - an M6 x 50 cap head bolt straight
> into the rear tyre that was only a few weeks old. I didn't notice
> until I came in from practice and checked the tyre to find the
> finely chamfered head sticking out.
>
> The point is that even when you get a puncture you'd probably
> not notice until you stopped. Most punctures are "slow" punctures,
> rather than total blow-outs, so you're more likely to spot it
> first thing in the morning before you go to work or the last
> thing at night before you leave work for home.
I had a run of punctures, averaging one every 5 weeks, when I was
commuting by bike five years or so ago. A couple of them were slow
punctures as you describe, but one of them involved picking up something
while doing a ton in the outside line of the M4.
The first thing I noticed was a slight weave setting in, then when I
tried to lean to move across to the middle lane the bike seemed to want
to stay upright. By the time I got to the hard shoulder, the tyre was
starting to disintegrate with deep cracks starting to appear all over
the surface.
In every case, those friendly bods at the RAC sent a bike recovery van
and dropped me off at a tyre place in Staines. Other than an unexpected
hour or two of my time, it was no great hassle.
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:28 am
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:43 pm
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:08:42 +0000, in
<0tggq3hm5vnk4nt52hje3poa6034na5nhu.RemoveThis@4ax.com>, Champ
<news.RemoveThis@champ.org.uk> wrote:
>On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:00:42 GMT, "platypus"
><monotreme.RemoveThis@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>> Am help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> RAC
>>>
>>> <Cue Bear>
>>
>>I don't think Bear would be much use either, not for a puncture.
>
>Which sort of begs the wider question...
You mean it prompts the wider question? I'm sure this was done to
death recently, but 'begging the question' means making it unnecessary
or irrelevant.
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:05 pm
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Lozzo wrote:
> Catman says...
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>> [1] Great big lump of steel in tyre.
>
> It's called "the wheel"
>
LOL
Allow, please 
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:07 pm
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antonye wrote:
> platypus wrote:
>> Don't worry about it. I've had about 3 punctures in the last 10 years, and
>> one of those was down to a corroded wheelrim gnawing its way through the
>> inner tube. You're more likely to fall off or get hit by a car.
>
> I've only had one puncture in the last 18 years of riding and
> that was on the track at Assen - an M6 x 50 cap head bolt straight
> into the rear tyre that was only a few weeks old. I didn't notice
> until I came in from practice and checked the tyre to find the
> finely chamfered head sticking out.
>
> The point is that even when you get a puncture you'd probably
> not notice until you stopped.
Noticed two out of last three, but over my entire riding history, youre
right.
My last one (a couple of weeks back) was *very* noticeable.
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