| Author | Message | ||
     Greenman44 |
So I was ridding to Annual Training for the National Guard this morning, when I drove through a intersection and heard a pop click, click, click, while the back end got sloppy. I thought oh crap pulled to the outside lane and onto the shoulder. At first it didn't look flat bad, so I drove across some grass to a medical center parking lot for further investigating in a safer place (Utah drivers aren't the greatest I've been around). It appeared someone though it was a good idea to discard a steak knife in the road, and I was the lucky one to find it sticking out of my tire. I'm about 5 min from the airport I was headed to, but 45 minutes from home where my wife is coming from to pick me and the bike up to take us back home and get my truck to come back for the rest of the day of AT. Good points... not a new tire, had about 4-5k on it, probably had 2k more it could have went. Was only going 15 mph when it happened, it could have been on the freeway. I've yet to have a high speed blowout, knock on wood, I'm sure I will someday. My Platoon Sgt is cool with me taking a couple hours to get the situation rectified. Bad points... got a flat, ruined tire, registration is up this month and I have been running VA tags all summer because I bought it when I was there for some fine Army training, so it was going to cost a little more to get it registered, now I get to have a new tire. Well the sun is shinning and its a beautiful day so I'm thinking all should be ok. Shawn | ||
| Maximum |
"Utah drivers aren't the greatest I've been around" Maybe you ran over a dude eating steak...but didn't notice.  | ||
| Edgydrifter |
Glad to hear you're OK. There are a lot of places a motorcyclist could catch a steak knife that would be considerably worse than the rear tire. I've figured out how Pirelli makes their tires so grippy--magnets. The tires are attracted to the Earth's metallic core, helping them stick to the road. Unfortunately, they also attract nails, knives, rebar, car parts and maybe even satellites. I'm on my third rear in twelve months, with the first two tires victims of nail and screw punctures. | ||
| Xbimmer |
Good thing you stopped to check. I read in a BMWMOA News back issue recently where some guy wrote in with pics about how he'd run over something, followed by a lot of noise and vibration. He slowed down some but proceeded home anyway, without stopping to check it out. The pics showed a bolt about 5-6" long through the tire and into and THROUGH the cast wheel! How he made it without dumping it is beyond me, but the guy sounded like he was actually bragging about the event. What an idiot...  | ||
| Kimberley |
I'm on my second tire in 1 month.....1100mi. on the first, 100mi or so on the second. Hope I don't attract one of them thar satellites anytime soon. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Is it a sync rear with low mileage and just a hole? I'll happily pay shipping and handling for it if you'll send it to me!  | ||
| Hmartin |
Reepicheep - PM sent. | ||
| Judotrip |
I took a piece of metal to the rear tire on I-5 outside of Seattle a few weeks ago. It got sucked under my rear hugger fender and sliced my tire down the middle. All turned out ok, but I only had about 2k miles on the tire.... |
