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Rick_a
Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 - 01:44 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

A flat front tire. The front started hopping a bit, then I tipped in for a hard right...and not much happened. I slowed a bit and counter steered like crazy to just make the corner. At first I thought my rear wheel had come loose at the axle or something. By the next 1/4 mile it was dead flat and I was trolling along. A couple gas station visits later repeating the flat tire antics and I was home.

The tire on the DR650SM had made it 13,000 miles and still looks okay for a couple more thousand or so. The tube, apparently, not so much.

Good thing I wasn't on the highway!

I may be carrying a can of tire inflator from now on.
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Strokizator
Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 09:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Don't know if that works on tubes. Slime maybe?
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Reepicheep
Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

There is a special kind of slime for the tube tires, it's marked on the package. Good stuff to have on hand if you go over a thorn or something.
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Figorvonbuellingham
Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:14 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Fyi most shops wont work on a wheel that has been slimed.

(Message edited by figorvonbuellingham on July 20, 2016)
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Pwnzor
Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

^^^ true that. Slime and fix-a-flat products really piss off the tire guys.

But an emergency is an emergency...
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Natexlh1000
Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:35 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Back in my KLR250 days, I tried that fix a flat stuff a few times and it never worked.

I really don't think tubed tires respond to that stuff.
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Sifo
Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 10:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I got a flat on my pickup yesterday, pretty much at the halfway point of a road trip. I found out that between the 3" lift and the 1.5" bigger tires, the jack no longer gets the tire off the ground! No problem, just find a hole to park the wheel in. Of course I never got around to getting a matching spare, so it's still 1.5" smaller than the rest. I didn't want to do that to the locking differential, so the spare had to go on the front, and the good front tire rotated to the rear. Makes finding an appropriate hole just that much more of a PITA! The good news was that it was a puncture right in the center of the tread, so I was able to get it patched from the inside for a proper fix.

I know slime makes a product for tubed mountain bike tires. I've known people who used it as a preventative measure. I can't blame a shop for refusing to deal with that mess.
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Reepicheep
Posted on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 11:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I always felt bad handing a slimed tire to a tire guy to change a tire.

Then I started changing my own tires, and decided the tire guys need to stop being such babies ; ). It's not that big a deal, and changing a tire is already a messy job anyway. Heck, in a tubeless tire, it usually is just dry and dusty.
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