Flat Tire Help
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RE: Flat Tire Help
Depends on your comfort level.
1. Best - new tire
2. Patch tire and install new tube
3. Patch tire
4. Plug tire
You will find riders with each story and pro or cons.
Decide what your mental comfort is worth. The price of a new tire and installation.
Save a bunch and put a plug in it. Pull the wheel and pay someone to patch the tire.
Any way you go, someone will say there is a better way.
PersonallyI have a tire changing machine and a wheel balancer. I patch the inside of a tubeless tire and run it tubeless. Do the work myself and then balance the wheel, reinstall. It cost less than a buck for materials and takes about an hour to do.
JMHO
1. Best - new tire
2. Patch tire and install new tube
3. Patch tire
4. Plug tire
You will find riders with each story and pro or cons.
Decide what your mental comfort is worth. The price of a new tire and installation.
Save a bunch and put a plug in it. Pull the wheel and pay someone to patch the tire.
Any way you go, someone will say there is a better way.
PersonallyI have a tire changing machine and a wheel balancer. I patch the inside of a tubeless tire and run it tubeless. Do the work myself and then balance the wheel, reinstall. It cost less than a buck for materials and takes about an hour to do.
JMHO
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#16
RE: Flat Tire Help
Ive run thousands of miles on a plug, its not a big deal. You probly dont have police run flats as they are not legal for consumer use and at least here in georgia dealers are required to remove them before selling police bikes. If your in cheap mode ,plug it, if not a rear tire is not an expensive investment.
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RE: Flat Tire Help
I got a basically new Dunlop from a friend of mine that he took off the rear of his metric because it had a hole in it. I put a patch over the hole, put a new tube in it and put it on my 77 FLH (spoke wheels). I've been running it like that for several thousand miles now with no problems.