Leaky seam

[DryRob]

I was giving my bike it's yearly bath earlier and noticed air leaking from one of the seams, can I reseat this myself or do I have to take it to a fitters?

[dazza]

Have you got an inflatable bike ?

[DryRob]

Oops, should have mentioned it's a tyre seam

[ghostbiker]

This normally is caused by corrosion on the rim. You might be lucky and let all the air out and reinflate but both times I have had this (gsx600f and once on the fazer 1000 before I power coated them) Its ment tyre off, sand paper it smooth and refit/ballance tyre.

[DryRob]

Well that's not what I wanted to hear but thanks for the info. Any ideas how to do this myself or is it a garage job? I've seen a guy use a G-clamp to push the tyre off the rim when he fitted me a new valve...

[DryRob]

Took it off and went to a garage, serviced my back brake while i was at it. For £5 it wasn't worth wrecking a nearly new tyre

[chaz]

when I've had car tyres leaking round the rim, the tyre fitters hit them with a very big rubber mallet, don't know if it's a good idea hitting the side walls of a bike tyre?

[DryRob]

To be honest even if they were charging 4x more I'd still pay, I've not got any tools for tyres and I'd rather not mess one of them up