Flat Tire

 Hay everyone I got a flat tire on the rear on my Busa. In were in the middle
of a Indian summer here in central Ohio. The dealer can't  fixed till next
week. Can I just plug it myself and keep the speed down below a 100 and be
alright! The tire is a Dunlop 206 and the tread is about half gone. All I
want to is take a ride around here local no long rides next summer I'll get
a new tire.. Thanks Bill

 

Spock, where's the translator computer? I think it's a new alien language.

-gc

--
Norick Abe crashed at Monza and was so concussed from the spill that he
could not even remember that he should have retired at least ten years
ago. -- superbikeplanet.com

 

I once tried using a foot pump to do that. The gauge got up to something
like 80psi and I was about to have a coronary when there was a bloody
great BANG! and the pump exploded :-))


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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:


Using a low capacity coin-operated compressor, you cannot even trap 40
psi to seat the beads on some stiff carcass tires. I had to wrap the
cable of a coffin hoist around the circumference of one tire to get the
beads to make a seal that would hold enough air to make the bead begin
to cooperate.

I don't recommend using dishwashing soap. It's intentionally caustic
for cutting grease on dishes and pots and pans.

When you remove your soap-mounted tire to repair or replace it, you may
notice that the aluminum rim is grey and corroded, or even *pitted* by
the caustic soap and chromed spoke nipples will be rusty.

There's an even bigger secret that I only learned from reading the
generic stuff that I usually ignore in home repair manuals. It's the
"drop center" trick.

You want to avoid allowing the first bead to go down over the bead
retaining ramp on the lower side of the wheel. Keep the first bead in
the "drop center" of the wheel, if at all possible.

The drop center is that smaller diameter center part of the wheel.
Keeping the first bead in the drop center gives you a lot more room to
work your tire levers.

You may have noticed that there are 12-inch long tire levers for
amateur mechanics to use, but the professional manager of a motorcycle
tire store will have a 6-inch long lever he keeps in his shirt pocket.
The short lever works great for people who know exactly what they are
doing when they are spooning a tire onto the rim.

Some tires have very flexible carcasses, and you can easily keep the
first bead in the drop center, but other tires, like the Bridgetone
BT-45's have incredibly stiff cacasses and the tire resists the drop
center strategy. I actually had to pay a tire ape $15.00 to mount a
BT-45.

 Jello Pudding wrote:

Wasn't paying full attention but I think... One of the craziest things I
saw using WD40 to seat a tire. The goof sprayed it inside the tire and
sparked it. The explosion seated the bead and the knucklehead survived.