Holy Shesh. Flat at 120mph!

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Well, I had a close encounter yesterday. I was riding my busa with a friend who has a Kawi 636. There was a nice stretch of road with nothing in sight so I throttle her up. At about 120 it felt like someone was pushing my bike to the right side. I start to slow down and my buddy (636) catches up to my left side and motions for me to pull over. I had to slow down gently because she felt very unstable. Once I got her stopped 636 tells me I have a flat. I checked the tire to find that the valve stem has a slit in it! To make matters worse there is "NO" reception anywhere! Where is that "can you hear me now" guy when you need him
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. Anyway, I guess those years of Mc Guiver (sp?) paid off. Someone stopped by with a compressor and a little bit of black tape and I was on the road again. Of course I took it very easy on the way home and stopped to check the tire pressure a couple times. I guess it could have been a pretty bad senario.
I'm adding the valve stem to my "lookover" check sheet.
Just felt like I had to share my experience here!
Shawn
 
Got myself a flat rear a few days ago. I praise God it wasn't worse and i was able to get it home before it completly went down. Add to the fact these tires were pretty much worn and my dunlops will be put on soon. Was riding in the city and just started hearing "WAP WAP WAP WAP" coming from the rear tire. I pulled into a parking lot asap and see a broken hose clamp with a cotter pin attached to it squashed against the rear tire. Cottern pin didn't puncture but part of the clamp wedged a nice wound into the tread of the tire. Quickly grabbed my snip pliers from the tool pouch and clipped off the excess metal and was able to get it home with part of the metal still kinda plugging the tire. Will probably plug the tire tommorrow to try and get it to the shop.

Reason why i didn't do it there in the parking lot? Didn't have no plug kit/air. Took this as a wake up call to invest in getting a kit and doing the hump mod to store it in. Stop and go tire plugger kit and the cycle pump seem like winners to me: http://www.stopngo.com/

http://www.bestrestproducts.com/celestia/products/cyclepump/


Saw on a thread here while searching for tire repair kits mention of someone who put a magnet on the rear part of the bellywing of the busa to "catch" metal things like nails and such to help prevent flat tires. Sounds more like something to be busted on "Mythbusters" as you would think it would have to be one powerful magnet. Maybe if a nail or hoseclamp as in my case bounced up and made contact with the magnet it could possibly work though?
 
Put in a good metal stem when you fix it if you are going to do high speeds.
 
>"Saw on a thread here while searching for tire repair kits mention of someone who put a magnet on the rear part of the bellywing of the busa to "catch" metal things like nails and such to help prevent flat tires."<

I had a rear tire on my car go flat because it picked up a freakin' razor blade.  Tire store said they see a lot of rear tire problems.  Seems the front tire will cause objects that are laying flat on the road to stand up, just long enough for the rear to hit it.  Naturally the bigger rear bike tires cost more than the fronts----.
 
Man glad to hear that you made it home safe! Maybe we should right Mythbusters and get them to check that out!
 
That's what happened to 99busa when we was on a ride.Valve stem cracked.Fix-a-flat still got him home ok.60+ miles.
 
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