got home today & checked the bike & i saw a little nail in the groove of my brand new tyres. thinking it hadnt puntured through i stupidly removed it…then…sssssssssssssssssss. After doing a search on LB I mow know i need it plugged.
can anyone recommend a place to do this. the bike is in east acton.
Do you have breakdown cover? The AA plugged mine once. Another time some kind man with a repai kit helped me out 
checked the tyre this morning & i can easily push in the tyre with my finger. now do you reckon i could ride the bike slowly up the rd to the service station & fill it with air then ride a mile to the repair guy
Put that nail back, then slowly to the petrol station put air and then repair station.
NO. It will go dead straight, mate.
that bring another question
can u buy those plugs somewhere in london and fix yourself
i did fix few punctures in car tyres in states ( u can buy those repair kits anywhere over there) but they not very popular over here
i tried halfords and few auto parts and nothing:(
They sell puncture repair kits at most bike shops that have motrax/oxford products - so try Chiswick honda, infinity’s hanger lane, or ask terry-moto he normally has a kit on him, and he lives in Acton aswell!
Edit - This has probably been sorted now - didn’t look at when it was posted???
yep, got it repaired the next day. he fix the puncture & also found another hole. no wonder my bike felt funny when braking.
join the club found this in my rear yesterday…
lest this boot has done 1700 that last did 200 before getting holed…
What amazes me is a nail or screw is laying on it’s side and yet it sticks directly into your tyre as if it had been poised sticking up in the air at 45 degrees waiting for you to roll over it. How does it happen???
cus the tyre does run ove the nail, at first it pushes it along as if it was skidding on it, it happens fast so u cant tell, the tyre rides over hits the lip of the nail goes in a little bit, rolls over it again pushing it the whole way in,
well that seems the most abvious way…
o yea, get ur self a set of crafty plugs, they are wicked, easy to use, simple and affective,
Well, the most plausible reason I’ve heard over the years is that the screw gets flicked up by the front wheel .
This makes sense when you consider that bikes get far far more rear wheel punctures than front ones.
Hein Gericke do repair kits, as do Infinity Motorcycles, both in the region of £18. I’ve plugged my tyre to get to Amazing Bikes for a proper plug. Just picked up another nail in the rear tyre, looses around 4psi over 24 hours, so will get it plugged at the weekend. I just keep the tyre up to pressure each morning…
Plugging a tyre yourself takes all of 15 minutes and is a useful “get me there” tool.
OUT OF CURIOSITY, HOW MUCH DO YOU PAY FOR A PUNCTURE PROPER REPAIR
big diff between a roadside diy kit, and taking it to a proper garage and having it plugged from the rear (ahem)
can of tyre foam from the petrol station to get it inflated and running, then off to a local bike garage has always done the trick for me
you’re talking about 20quid for a proper tyre off plug normally.
Crafty Plugger and http://www.tyreinflators.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=1
check www…com
comes out to you and very experienced with bikes, 24hr as well…
ooo erm… that didnt work?
take the full stops out apart form the normal 2 that remain,
so you mean http://www…com/
Edit you’re right it doesn’t work! is this some kind of anti competition/ anti advertising thing?
