Went on a ride today to help one our road captains get qualified, but bike didn't feel right. First corner bike started to oscillate, so pulled over to check it out. Didn't see anything wrong, but decided to abort my involvement in ride. Turned around and started home, but things got worse. Stopped again and noticed tire was almost flat. Hooked up portable air compressor and started filling up tire. Took a long time, but finally got about 35lbs into tire.

Question is, do you drive like hell to get home or drive slowly stopping to keep adding air to get home or stop, call wife and have her borrow my neighbor's trailer??

I drove like hell, my belief was that the faster I went, the quicker I would get home, and the less air would leak out.

What do you guys think? I pulled the pin almost all out and then snapped this pictue, it is 2" long, not sure how I got it

 

I think ya done fine..
I'd just leave that nail in there.
Fill it up in the morning and take it in and get it patched or changed, either one.

 

My sister in Brooklyn is missing a roll pin, that one might be it. Sandy moved a lot of stuff around. I would have called for a tow, with 50% of the tires not working right, why bet my life on it.

 

That's a plug and go. I have been using the "greasy rope" type for years, never a problem. Park where you can get to it, pull the object, ream it, insert the plug, trim the excess, air it up, check for leak, ride.
Riding one on low PSI is of course dangerous, and can also damage the sidewall and ruin the tire. Plug and go...
Tubeless, of course. That's the issue with tubes.

 

I don't think anyone can tell you if what you did is a good thing to do, or not. It's your call. You made it home and you and the bike are in one piece.

I would recommend you not patch the tire, but get a new one. In a car/truck, you have four tires. If a patch fails, it's not as severe an issue as it is on a bike, where you obviously only have two tires. Chances are a patch would be fine. But that one chance in a hundred-thousand (or whatever the odds are) that the patch could fail at speed, is enough for me to not take the chance in order to save a couple hundred bucks.

But once more, no one can tell you what's right. It's your call.

Alan

 

Plugged my tire. No problems.

 

Check out this website http://www.stopngo.com/
I had a screw in my rear tire, bought a stop and go tire plug kit for 30 bucks. I plugged the tire rode on it for several months until I changed the tire before a long trip.

 

I would have pluged it and continued on the ride with your freinds.

 

Yup! I carry a Plug & Go (whatever kit that is) and a Slime air compressor..

 

I'm with the plug people. But if I didn't have one, I would have done the same thing you did. Get as far as you can while there is still air in the tire. So, you carry a compressor, what about plugs? Got any of those to go with the compressor? You could have fixed it and got right back on the road.