Tyre levers on board.

[Treadtrader]

Treadtrader ,where did you buy your little "Slime Inflator"?.
Besides the American manufacter i can't find a webshop to buy one in Europe!.

Enjoy

Bought it from here, they had an offer on at the time, £15.00 i think.


NIPPY NORMANS - the No. 1 supplier of BMW motorcycle accessories!

[Lutin]

Try this link -

TYRE INFLATOR-NIPPY NORMANS - the No. 1 supplier of BMW motorcycle accessories!

[oldjack]

I'm a bit puzzled by a few things here. I've only ever had road bikes with cast wheels & tubeless tyres, & if I got a puncture I could always get enough pressure in to get home, then took wheel off & went to local friendly bike dealer to fix it.

You guys seem to be saying you can fix a puncture in a tubed tyre on the roadside, & you carry the necessary gear to do it. So how do you get the wheel off without a centre stand?, or can you get the tyre off one side & fix the hole with a repair patch like a pushbike? It sounds like thats not possible with the rear anyway.

Or do you wait for AA/RAC, in which case can they fix it for you or do they have to get you home? or to a motorbike shop to fix it?

I'm getting a bit worried about tubed tyres now, are they more prone to punctures than tubeless?

Sorry to be a pain but I'm new to all this!

[El Vencejo]

Tubed tyres are no more prone to punctures than tubeless; the main problem at speed is that tubed tyres are more prone to "blow out" with a puncture. Tubeless are also very much easier to fix on the road, no need to take the wheel off.
How many tubeless-type rims are there in 21", 19" ok, TDM's use cast 18 inchers.
In perspective , I've only had 3 punctures in 40 yearsand ridden in remote areas of France Andorra & Spain without a toolkit in the days before mobile 'phones.... and I'm still alive!!!
Just go out and have some fun, if you want to carry a full workshop , buy a feckin GoldWing with a trailer... or a car

.....sorry guys, I don't think I belong here, for me risk is 90% of the fun

[Treadtrader]

I really dislike the expression "blow-out" when used to describe a puncture.

Tubed tyres when punctured can suffer rapid deflation, fact.

Tubeless, as long as the object stays in, will lose pressure gradually, if at all. That's why safer.

Tubeless are easier to cope with at the roadside. Plenty of good plug systems. No need to remove the wheel.

But as said, punctures don't happen that often, a moblie phone and breakdown membership works well in UK.

[phil w]

+1 on buzetti levers.... but I would buy the longer ones they have a little lip on them that makes pulling on the rim easier so as not to keep popping out, if you want you can cut them down and even weld a socket on for your rear nut on one and front size on the other.
If you have a knife you can cut the defunct inner tube up to protect the rim
Consider the little air cylinders to re in flate

[El Vencejo]

"I really dislike the expression "blow-out" when used to describe a puncture."

In which case, you've never had a "blow out".
One of my 3 punctures was in a Lancia(car), porous alloy wheels which required a tube. Tube burst @ 80+mph, big bang, tyre trashed, by the time I'd stopped the rim was trashed too.

Ever been riding past a truck when it has "sudden deflation"?, blew me from the middle lane into the outside.

Blow out is an appropriate term.

Tyre levers, spare tubes , stuff like that is ok if you're riding round North Africa. For Europe... well, a bit anal retentive??? Just not my kind of biking, no fun at all.
Keep it light, ride fast, have fun, don't get caught

[jasonbc]

My kit depends on which bikes i'm on and what i'm doing. If on the Varadero i won't attempt punctures i have AA cover for everything i pay for it so if i need it they can do it i have wired in a 12v Socket and i do carry a compressor for emergencies when i do euro trips. Wonder potions for wheels i won't touch any of it any more as i've used Holts tyre weld before as instructed on the tin did what it said sat on the bike it went down again. Went to Spain a few years ago had 2 new tyres and valves fitted then i put GOOP in them for the trip down, don't know if it works on punctures but i was out with a friend and couldn't steer the Vara checked they tyres and the Valve had been eaten through checked the back and that was going the same way so i put that down to the GOOP.



Handy as also has a small flash light on it......

When out on the XR or Competing on the GAsgas i carry these



These are very good strong levers and are long about 14 inches i also keep spare thin emergency tubes in the bag on my front mudguard the bike normally uses 6mm continental tubes and i can honestly say the only time they've ever had a puncture is when i've pinched them fitting them. Just going out locally i don't bother with puncture equiptment but when we do road trials we normally go out as a group of a few of us so a mate normally takes a footpump that way we just split the load between us

[oldjack]

So do the AA/RAC fix your puncture by the roadside, or do they somehow get you to a repairer? by towing? or putting bike into van? proper newbie questions here!

I asked earlier how to get a wheel off to repair the puncture with only a side stand, but nobody replied, is it because its another stupid newbie question which everyone except little old me knows the answer to? Perhaps you guys are always riding in company but I'd be on my own (nobody likes me you see).

[beddowsm]

So do the AA/RAC fix your puncture by the roadside, or do they somehow get you to a repairer? by towing? or putting bike into van? proper newbie questions here!

I asked earlier how to get a wheel off to repair the puncture with only a side stand, but nobody replied, is it because its another stupid newbie question which everyone except little old me knows the answer to? Perhaps you guys are always riding in company but I'd be on my own (nobody likes me you see).

Nope fraid not. The AA do not repair your puncture at the road side. They are not allowed incase they cock it up and cause you to have an accident if they do not do a good enough job. Ive had my AT for a week now and had 2 punctures already, both in the front. The first was found after leaving my bike overnight and finding at home and thatnks to Paul-S it got repaired. The second, slowing down doing 70 into a bend when the front went quickly. I went all over the road but managed to stay on the bike. As I was on my own and did not have any kit I had to call the AA. They loaded the bike onto a transporter and took me home. I now have a spare tube, patches and some tyre levers on order. I will not be leaving home again without kit to repair a tube at the side of the road.