Tubes Flat Tire (Poll)

Revorunner

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I'm interested to find out how many flat tires everyone gets on average in one year of riding their Motoredbikes.I know it all depends on how much you ride it and what road conditions you ride on.I assume most people on the forum ride on pavement.

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I picked up a shiny new horseshoe nail in Walmart's parking lot my very first trip to town. There was not a barefoot horse in sight. Replaced the tube with a heavy duty one and have not had a problem in the last 400 miles.
 
one flat in 8 months -- main means of transpo

got the liners put in after that

the other day I saw a larger that normal staple sticking out of tire
I knew that I had to pull it out -- as I held my breath
guess that liner pushed it away from tube -- no leak

I like that as I ride that THING -- with air in it
 
I picked up a shiny new horseshoe nail in Walmart's parking lot my very first trip to town. There was not a barefoot horse in sight. Replaced the tube with a heavy duty one and have not had a problem in the last 400 miles.

Darn Horses.:giggle::giggle::rolleyes:
 
Only one flat on my rear wheel (of course) with some tire liners. There were 2 pieces of metal I left in there to test the liners, and there was another nail that went vertically thru the sidewall, but it was rubbing against my brakes, so that had to go. A very thick nail did me in, even tho the other pieces of metal were in there for 1 or 2 hundred miles.
 
Only one flat on my rear wheel (of course) with some tire liners. There were 2 pieces of metal I left in there to test the liners, and there was another nail that went vertically thru the sidewall, but it was rubbing against my brakes, so that had to go. A very thick nail did me in, even tho the other pieces of metal were in there for 1 or 2 hundred miles.

You left two pieces of metal in the the tire? Interesting,let us know about the results of the test you are conducting.
 
That test ended with the final thick nail that actually managed to make it through the liner. I'm rollin' clean now.
 
I've been motorized since April, 2008. Ride a great deal. Commute to and from work, weather permitting. And I don't deal with the cleanest roads in the world.

I think I've had two flats in that time.

First one was when the MB was still pretty new. Muffler spit it's red-hot guts out and rear whell rollled right over it. Instant flat.

Another time my daughter rode the bike and came home. I went to ride and found a flat front tire. Naturally, her answer was "I dunno".

I don't do anything special; cheap wal-mart tires and, mostly, new tubes. Occasionally I'll patch. But not often.
 
I had one on my first Raleigh MB on my first multi-mile trip out. Silly me for using the tires and tubes that had already been in the bike for 10 years. I think it was just dry rot. No MBC in those days :)
My second "flat" was not really a flat at all. I was cleaning my XR after a 50 mile ride and noticed a butterfly stud earring in my front tire right in the middle of the tread. I wasn't going to leave it in there so I pulled it out with some needlenose pliers and it caused a fairly slow leak. Gave the tube a quick shot of fix a flat, filled and rode for several miles in my backroads area and problem solved. I used just extra thick Bell tubes and the stock 26x1.95 tires. Everythings gonna get changed over to use tireliners though, they seem worth the trouble.
 
I averaged 1 or 2 flat tires a month at first! :eek: Also had a couple blowouts where I had to remove the tube from around my spokes and sprockets.

After going to No-More-Flats foam inner tubes, 0 flat tires, but have had to replace two back rims over time due to a long, rough dirt road at home breaking my spokes. Now have a Staton/Skyway Tuff-Wheel for the back, and No-Flat inner tube and it is 100% reliable now. No flats or bent rims!
 
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