Why do you always end up with a long self tapping screw embedded in your back tyre within weeks of getting it replaced! 
It’s happened to me twice now… and twice before on partially worn tyres. You almost have to wonder if there’s some bugger out there sprinkling the bloody things out of their window!
i once (last jan) had 3 in 1 week, i couldnt believe it! i was so annoyed!, so i share your pain.
Same here, my back tire has plenty of thread left but it now looks like a stuffed swiss cheese. I’m getting quite good at DIY repairs…
On one occasion there were three of us inflating our tires at a petrol station in Fulham. Although IMHO south of river is much worse, sometimes its like riding through a building site!
A nice copper once left a note on my bike warning me about a screw in my tire which I had not noticed, wish I could have thanked him.
Anyways, what is your opinion on how fast you can go safely with these botch jobs? I probably should not admit to it but I’ve done a track day with a couple in… 
But buying a new tire every time I get a nail, screw or pointy rock wedged in my tires would bankrupt me.
I know exactly how you feel mate, I recently had to pay a visit to FWR in Kennington to have what turned out to be the nib of a ball point pen removed from my back tyre, which was only fitted by FWR about a month before too!
Fortunately for me that’s the first time but I’ve only been in London six months so no doubt it’ll happen again at some point due to the amount of cr@p that’s left in the roads and on the pavements!
As for how many repairs you can have done, I’m pretty sure the guy at FWR said that 3 plugs in a tyre would be fine, if it got beyond that it was time for a new tyre.
I thought you could get the tyres plugged, is that right.
Yeah must admit that is possibly the single biggest annoyance about biking. Never had a puncture in the car (15 years) but I have only worn 1 rear tyre out in 2.5 years of riding.
Bloody carpenters!
" I’m pretty sure the guy at FWR said that 3 plugs in a tyre would be fine "
That’s right you can. 
That’s the beauty about riding an old vespa. Put on spare wheel. Come home and fit a new inner tube (<£5). Done. 
we hate youuu 
And if the spare gets puncture, well you can always pick it and carry it home.
Had same problem. Replaced 2 nearly new rear tyres on both the buell and scooter in a span of a month.
Grrr. hope I don’t catch anyone sprinkling nails and screws.
Unfortunately makes me think twice of aggressive filtering…
The DIY jobs at the side of the road are really only meant to be a get-you-home measure but I’ve commuted on DIY-plugged tyres for months on end with no problems. For more “spirited” riding (track days, big-mileage tours) I wouldn’t rely on them. Better to get along to a tyre dealer and get them to do a proper plug job. They won’t do more than 3 on one tyre and IIRC will only plug the central 1/3 band of the tyre.
You’ll hate me even more when I tell you a good tire cost me about £25. You have to replace the rear every 2000-2500miles though
That’s one things that worries me slightly when I get the bigger bike … bigger bills
bigger kicks more like 
aggravating aint it - have only managed to get one rear tyre to the point where its dead without a puncture.
not everywhere will do 3 plugs btw - the couple of places i’ve been they’d do 2. has to be over an inch from the side wall, and something like 6 inches from another plug.
have done trackdays on plugged tyres myself.
by the way ragnar, those DIY ones are supposed to be temporary really. know the couriers use 'em a lot but if you’re doing much high speed riding, i’d get consider getting the tyre plugged properly (tyre off and full plug fitted)
Well it’s certainly nice to know I’m not alone… I was beginning to regret telling that ‘traveller’ on Oxford Street to bugger off when she tried to force some heather on me 
I’ve plugged the bugger myself for the moment, might pop to FWR to see if they can do a better job… As BMW will almost certainly insist on a new tyre…
I got new rubber in October and within 2 weeks had a rear wheel puncture. The AA pumped it up and drove behind me to the dealers who replaced it. Got a taxi over there 2 days later to pick the bike up, by the time I got home I had another 2 punctures in other part of the same tyre! (It’s only 5 miles away). The AA came out and took it back to the dealer who wouldn’t plug it a second time because of the size of the hole that a bent hacksaw blade and large screw had made. Luckily they took sympathy on me knowing I needed my bike pronto and put on a part used tyre they had which I’m still running on.
BTW: If you do get the AA out for a puncture beware their plugging method cos it completely buggers the tyre, which is why the nice AA man opted for following me to the dealers, pumping the tyre up at regular intervals.
Yes I guess I’ll get it properly plugged, and then get the Micheline Pilot Road 2CT in the spring
i picked up a nail of some sort in my back tyre the other week, been commuting with it in…, its right smack in the center of the tyre, i take it i can get it plugged??
i never once had a puncture while working nights, except on my scoot-that one went in through the tread and came out of the sidewall!:w00t:, but that could have been picked up eleswhere, daytime commuting is a pain, have to go close/over to where all the crap gathers while filtering…not good!
altho its an excuse for some new tyres i suppose…
Ratty has a good point: if you’re getting a lot of punctures, think about where you’re riding. If you do a lot of filtering along the cruddy brown stuff that accumulates at the centre of the road near junctions, or to a lesser extent in the gutter (and what the f are you doing riding there?!), that will be where all the nails etc. end up and that’s why you get so many punctures.
