im guessin thats a tubeless? i dont know much about sport bikes. ive always been partial to cruisers. but hell, when you see a bike thread on a Blazer site, you gotta read haha. id try a patch on that, and see how it holds. i wouldnt do anythin over 70 til you see how it holds up at higher speeds. if it has a tube, plug the hole and replace the tube. good luck! and good lookin bike

 

I got a hole that was pretty good sized and used a plug just to get me home which sucked cause I was on a weekend cruise 5 hours from home when it happened. The hole was so big I had to stop every hour to fill the tire up. I would recomend replacing the tire as soon as so can though. The problem with putting a patch on a bike tire is that its allot like the sidewall of a car tire in that they aren't very flat and getting good adhesion on curve of the tire is harder to do. It sucks espescially since its a new tire but I'd hate to see it go flat on you at speed and have another wreck.

 

Ok so I looked at it today and it seems to be holding pressure still. It was at 30psi when I checked it just now. So now I guess the question is; do I try to pull the thing out? or do I leave it in, just in case pulling it out makes it worse.

 

I would definitely try to pull it out. Worst thing that can happen is you lose air when it comes out and wouldn't you rather know that sitting in your parking lot than doing 50 MPH somewhere?

 

definately pull it out. maybe it was like the screw i picked up in my rear tire on the Blazer. it wasnt long enuf to puncture the tire, so it still held air

and on the patch- it shouldnt be too hard. ive never done the tire on a bike, but patched plentya tires from livin on a gravel road. but i know that gettin adhesion is only 50% of the patch holdin air. the other half is the air pressure pushin the patch into the tire. even without a whole lot of adhesive, the air pressure will hold the patch in place. it all depends on what style patch you use

 

I would for sure pull it out. If you don't lose air you should be ok just make sure you keep an eye on it. If you lose pressure you should replace the tire. I wouldn't try to patch it.

I get what your saying about the air holding the patch in place but I still don't trust it! There is zero flat surface inside a motorcycle tire and with that it is far easier for just a small edge of the patch to fail and allow air to leak and the tire to go flat. I understand that can happen even on a car tire but at least then you have 3 other wheels to keep you upright instead of only one. Having a tire go flat at speed is scary as hell!! The best way I can describe the feeling is to take your bike with that street tire on it on some wet grass and just try and give it some good throttle and see what happens to the back end and how hard it is to control. Now take your speed up to 70 and put blacktop under you! Not a good feeling to have and would be an even worse feeling to lose control and have nothing between you and the blacktop at 70! I have owned 7 different bikes and logged around 75k miles on a bike in the last 10 years so I've been around alot of bikes and bike owners and bike shops and everyone that I have ever been around or spoke to about flat tires on a bike would say the same thing use it cautiously as a temp fix to get you by until you can get the tire replaced. To me the $100-200 for the new tire is a cheap piece of mind knowing that I don't have a patch that may fail in my tire causing me to wreck my bike! I'm just speaking from my many experiences with motorcyles and I would hate to see you get hurt or worse over something that could have been prevented Thog.

 

Wow Thogert, you have had a string of bad luck there. Brand new tire too! I completely agree with you rex. I had a rear blow at 80 and it was horrifying to say the least. The rim cuts the tire to pieces starting a tank slapper. Then when there is no tire left you are left with the rim to try and stop with (if you make it through the tank slapper.) I have no idea how I managed to get it to a stop but it was one of the luckiest unlucky moments of my life.

I have a real phobia of that happening again and keep a very close eye on my rear tires condition. If I saw that I would be saying some real dirty words while I was on my way to order a new one.

 

Yeah I guess since it is still at the same pressure I'll try to pull it and see how deep it went. If there is any damage from what I can see to the bands, or it leaks, then I'll order a new one.

 

Wow. How did I manage this?


That is what I ran over. The thing is like a metal pen like object about 5in long. The even more crazy part is that the sharp end was the end that was sticking out of the tire, so the end that pierced it was the dull end. I don't even know what to say.

Of course I won't be doing anything with the tire except replacing it. The hole is waaaay to big to be patched or plugged.

 

Wow.. looks kinda like one of those cebter punches for drillsng holes.
Or it could be something else? Idk. But that's crazy. Couldve been bad.