Well, it finally happened. My first flat tire on a Yammy. I've had 4 Yammies now.
I've noticed a tendency for the BT015's and 016's to get star shaped holes in them a lot, from sticks I'm pretty sure. I've never had another tire do it.
This time 'cause I was getting down in tread anyhow, it got through. Was just getting on it and noticed a very spectacular wallowing from the rear of the bike, and knew the worst immediately. Kept going to the Delamere shops, to get some slime and put some air in.....and they don't have air.
So I call out my own personal RAA bloke (the old man) who comes to the rescue yet again, by bringing up a car tire with 100psi in it and a hose with tire fitting at each end. He picked me up a bottle of slime on the way.
Removed valve. Squeezed in some slime. Replaced valve. Inflated tire to 40 psi. Quick blat down the road and back to spread the slime. Geared up and rode home. Got to his place 45km of twisties later. Went inside for a cuppa, came out and put some more air in. It was down to 15psi. Rode the rest of the way home, and it was fine.
IMHO, slime isn't really that good. I could've got the same result from milky weetbix I reckon. It got me out of the shizz, but it was a soft squidgey ride for the last 10km to the oldman's place.
Having said that, I did actually go relatively hard through some nice bits before it got flat again, so it wasn't a complete loss.
Would I use it again to get me out of trouble? Ask me again after I clean up all the crap when I get the tire off. It was definitely easier than trailering it.:thumbup:
I've noticed a tendency for the BT015's and 016's to get star shaped holes in them a lot, from sticks I'm pretty sure. I've never had another tire do it.
This time 'cause I was getting down in tread anyhow, it got through. Was just getting on it and noticed a very spectacular wallowing from the rear of the bike, and knew the worst immediately. Kept going to the Delamere shops, to get some slime and put some air in.....and they don't have air.
So I call out my own personal RAA bloke (the old man) who comes to the rescue yet again, by bringing up a car tire with 100psi in it and a hose with tire fitting at each end. He picked me up a bottle of slime on the way.
Removed valve. Squeezed in some slime. Replaced valve. Inflated tire to 40 psi. Quick blat down the road and back to spread the slime. Geared up and rode home. Got to his place 45km of twisties later. Went inside for a cuppa, came out and put some more air in. It was down to 15psi. Rode the rest of the way home, and it was fine.
IMHO, slime isn't really that good. I could've got the same result from milky weetbix I reckon. It got me out of the shizz, but it was a soft squidgey ride for the last 10km to the oldman's place.
Having said that, I did actually go relatively hard through some nice bits before it got flat again, so it wasn't a complete loss.
Would I use it again to get me out of trouble? Ask me again after I clean up all the crap when I get the tire off. It was definitely easier than trailering it.:thumbup: