frack!
 

had to hobble the last mile or so to work on a rear flat.

now stuck here.

wish i had a trailer hitch on either car.....grrr

plug it and get a compressor.

Call the fire department.

JC

They're busy watching trailers burn.

guy has a truck and he'll help
another has tie downs i can use


shop i want to goto is not convenient w/ other peoples cars, or i can handle bus. on fri (i'm off) and is reasonably priced @ $200+ labor for a mich. Pilot Road 3

the official aprilia dealer who i've never used wants $280 for the same tire + labor, and they're just down the ways.....grr...

and my next dr neighbor works at my co. so i have rides back-n-forth if need be.

anybody ever use pirelli angel's ?

How far away from Andy are you?

:lol:

JC

not far, but he's been awful pomus lately, kinda steered away from him as a of late.

he's got a conti something S/T tire.

Damn...might want to carry a roadside repair kit with you from now on.
Cheap and fits under the seat.

good luck getting everything taken care of.

There you go again using logic and common sense. If that were the case this thread would cease to exsist :lol:

Or unlocking doors cuz people locked their keys inside...

somebody left me a can of fix a flat, i don't plan to use it though. i did go out at lunch and found a stick dead center in the tread of the tire. which i think is the culprit.

think i'll come back up tonight and patch it till i can get it better inspected of fri.


irony is that last fri at autozone i noticed an HD and i commented on his rear tire being bald. he was a new rider and said the rear only had 1000mi on it...

then sat. i saw an elder couple at the gas station having troubles w/ changing a tire so i threw down and changed it for them

now it's my turn and somebody left me a can of fix a flat :)

fix a flat sucks, it only takes care of slow leaks, not major punctures

get yourself a repair kit with plugs and a CO2 inflator

btw, charlie locked all of us out of the house fri, when we were out back building the new trampolene. but we were prepared after aprils locking us out.......lol

it would take a huge CO2 cartridge to blow up a motorcycle tire.

When I worked for goodyear, that shit was HORRIBLE. It may come out foamy but it turns to liquid and smells horrid. We would ask people before we took the tire off and 90% of them said there wasn't any fix a flat in the tire then BOOM it's all over my work shirt.

I LOATHE that shit.

yup, hated it when i worked at NTW (now NTB)

Skip the fix-a-flat it fugs everything up. Makes it a royal pain to change the tire.

most kits come with 3 or 4 co2 cartriges and that will give you enough air to get the bike soemwhere.

I saw some clown using fix-a-flat when his tire was COMPLETELY flat with the bead separated from the rim (probably because he had kept driving after it went flat). So as he was trying to use that shit, it just escaped and stunk up the area for hours. Wouldn't doubt that shit is toxic.

got it sorted out.

buddy is sales mgr at honda/zuki/HD shop

got my 190/55/17 mich PR3 on order for tom.

will pick me and the bike up tom. for a very fair price for labor and transport.

You'd be surprised what people think you can "Patch" when a tire comes in flat. Guy came in with a Brake pad INSIDE the tire and the hole through the sidewall...Needless to say, he bought a new tire.

How the hell does a brake pad get inside a tire?

Stupidity often defies the laws of physics.

:lol

Fuck if I know, I asked if he HAD brakes...He was just as shocked as we were. It wasnt off his car though...My guess is it was on the road and he ran over it? But it went through the sidewall so I really have no idea.

We had a bucket of what we found in tires up on the sales desk to "persuade" customers to buy our tire insurance. Anything from the brake pad to huge pieces of metal. There was even a wirebrush from before I worked there...

Probably was kicked up by another car or even his own tires and into the sidewall. I tried to fix a flat my mom had and found a similar thing on the inside sidewall of one of her rear tires. When I took it to a shop to get a new tire, they said it's common for your own front tires to kick up stuff into the rear.

well bike survived the night in the parking garage

i left a note w/ donated fix a flat, thanking he person and telling'em i had a tow coming today, can was gone this morn.

in da road again!

Why is it in the road, did you drop it?

JC

World's largest speed bump.

A few years back u helped a got at work change out his tires in his off roading truck, inside each tire was a ratchet strap pulled right around the rim. His explanation was that someone told him that off road ratchet straps can be used to seat a bead and help keep the tire on while inflating it...

Makes Sense...If the ratchet strap was around the tire AND the rim.

Well, he really wanted me to leave the ratchet straps there, so I did, and to this day as far as I know he still has a set of straps snugly holding his 1 piece rim together

:lol:

JC

Way late in this one, but I have angel's on the 1125.
After the first 1k, the "angel" is completely worn off the rear, but still visible on the front.
Seem to have almost as much stick as the Pilot Powers I was running... don't know if I'll get more miles out of them or not.