I had a puncture yesterday, so nipped over to Amazing Bikes after sticking 50psi in the rear tyre. Mark put in two plugs for the holes straight off. Did a nice job. Nigel was going to order in a set of tyres for me to fit them next weekend as he did not have my size in stock. Old tyre was close to the wear bars, but good for another 1000 miles.
Then this afternoon I get to my bike to see it has a flat tyre again. Another huge screw through the new plug… ********. So I plugged it (I carry a repair kit) and managed to get to PolePosition for them to fit a new Pirelli Diablo Strada for me. Good service if a tad pricey.
PolePosition does not stock Maxxis (which cost me £150 fitted front and rear at Amazing Bikes) so I ended up going for a Pirelli Diablo Strada over the Dunlop on offer, a bit more expensive at £116 fitted, but I’d rather have a decent tyre. I cannot abide Dunlops.
Sometimes if you find you’re getting punctures regularly it might be because there is major construction work going on in a road that you regularly use - same thing happened to me - access road to where I was working was next to a building site - the road there was covered in bolts nails and **** associated with work at the site.I also had a very large bolt go through an expensive rear tyre (putting it beyond repair) last year after only doing 100 miles on the facking thing. :crying:
Lidl advertise a nut,screw and nail sensor which has no reviews as far as we can ascertain. Got to be worth a punt if you regularly ride across building sites and fraternise with big hairy men in ill fitting pants.
Well at least you know! Apparently, contrary popular belief the said stores tinned Galician squid in ink sauce is a viable alternative to propriatory tyre sealants though due to my lack of fluency in the Basque tongue (xavexybri caxyvenq) we are not sure of how you are expected to introduce it through the tyre valve, do you open the tin first do you suppose?
