31-05-18, 10:39 AM
(31-05-18, 09:09 AM)Fazerider link Wrote: After the first couple of thousand miles you stop worrying.
One more story from Russ: He'd had someone come in with a tyre they'd "fixed" with a roadside kit.
They'd used a reaming tool, put in the plug etc, but what they hadn't realised is that the nail they'd hit had bent as it went in, so when they'd done the repair "vertically", they hadn't fixed it properly because the nail had actually damaged the tyre at 45 degrees.
The repair had, fortunately, held, but it could easily have failed in use and at speed...
Again, my safety is worth more than the few quid it would cost to get this checked properly by someone with sufficient experience to make sure that it's actually going to keep working.