...talk about lucky...

masterofpuppets

masterofpuppets

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My bikes been down and out for about a week because I had a slow leak in my rear tire. I was losing about a pound and a half of pressure an hour. I decided since I only have 3,000 more miles of life left in the tire anyway to get it replaced.

I went in to a local custom bike shop by my house, ordered the (expensive as hell) tire, and took it in this morning to get it replaced. When I went back to pick it up at about noon, the service guy was holding my old tire and said "you're lucky you ain't dead".

Check it out:



Yes, that is an inch long nail.
 
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That looks like a screw to me, Mop!

How much do those tires cost?
 
Oh whatever. It's a big metal thing in a tubeless tire.

Tire (Dunlop 180/55 ZR18) was $270, the whole deal cost $340. I had them eliminate some wheel weight when they rebalanced the rear end too.
 
I don't get it don't flame me /runaway is it that your tire would blow up and mop would go flying and we would need a obituary section for eGO?
 
Ouch...I'm assuming the tire would've blown up and you go flying off the bike?

BUT OH MY GAWSH! WHAD WOULD HAPPEN TO TEH JELLYBEANZ WHEN U IZ DEAD!?!?!!oneShift1!1
 
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I don't get it don't flame me /runaway is it that your tire would blow up and mop would go flying and we would need a obituary section for eGO?
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Motorcycle tires are tubeless. So, if there's a hole at all in the rubber, air pressure will escape. If the screw had come out, 38 PSI would come out of that hole quickly. If I was lucky, it'd go flat but stay in one piece and I could pull off the road. But, when you only have 2 tires and one is a floppy piece of rubber... it'd be easy to lose the bike. Worst case.... the screw comes out at highway speed, the tire rips to pieces, I high side off the bike and.... yeah.....

I kept the tire. I'm going to mount it on my garage wall in my apartment.
 
One of my uncles lost a tire on the freeway once. He was wearing full leathers and a good old steel helmet. He was putting salve on his arms and legs for a few weeks and you could see light through the helmet, which he kept like you're going to with your tire, but he was okay. He gave up riding motorcycles, though.

Congrats on that not going out on you, man. We like having you here!
 
:O glad you got that checked out mop! I would hate it if something happened to anyone in the clan, even if they were a sniper.
 
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