With all due respect, he's not going to say anything different than that is he, because he would be daft to start telling anyone that it's safe to plug a tyre and use it for longer than a temporary fix!
He's in the business of selling tyres.
With all due respect, I had a bet with myself that someone would pop up with a comment like that...!
A little story: When I first got my Fazer back in 2007, I found it such a PITA trying to get garage air hoses onto the tyre valves, I had him swap them over for the 90 degree style.
Since then I'd been in multiple times for new fronts and rears when they needed replacing.
About a year ago, I found I was losing pressure in my front tyre, but there seemed to be no damage, so I went in to see Russ and he tried swapping over the valve core.
Unfortunately the pressure loss continued, so I went back and this time he took the tyre off the wheel and found that the base of the replacement valve had corroded, so he replaced it and put the wheel back on the bike.
Total cost? Nothing, nada, zip.
That is the sort of service that this guy offers and why, if you go onto a page like Hampshire Bikers and ask where you should get your tyres fitted or replaced, you'll get 20 people saying "Go to Russ" because he's *not* just "in the business of selling tyres", his fundamental ethos is "would I want to ride on that?"
A PS to this, when the club asked him to do this workshop, he *didn't* say "yes, I'll do it for X amount", instead we had a whip-round for him at the end and he probably got more out of that than he would have got for charging a fee.
So if you're ever down near Portsmouth and need tyres sorted, go to
http://www.russmotorcycletyres.co.uk/