No, Not Again!

Yesterday morning I reached my office and found a nail in my rear tire. I did with this tire-set 4.500 km and would have rode many more with it.



As I unfortunately already have experience with this situation, I didn't touch it. I called some local dealers, but was not successful to get a new Continental Road Attack 4 tire. Therefore I called my friend, a dealer in the north of my province. I was lucky. He was just about to mount his last new tire on his own bike. We made a short-term appointment and in the early afternoon I rode to his facility. This ment additional 300 km to my yesterdays office ride.
After half an hour my bike was finished and I was able to ride back home. The most interesting part was to unmount the super hot exhaust.
After another 220 km and minus €230.- in my pocket I arrived at home.

 

@Armando Morales: It is forbidden to repair a puncture on a bike's tire here in Austria. No official mechanic will do it.

 

@Tigcraft: This wouldn't be a problem normally. Only in the case of an accident the insurances will occur with problems for locals, not for tourists.

 

@Pegscraper: I have two sets for our bikes. In case of an international ride I would use it. But back at home I must change the tire to keep my insurance active. I did this with my Honda, when I had a puncture in Bosnia. A quick repair there and a change of my tire back at home.

 

@blacktiger: As I wrote in my other post. The 4 Triumphs are sold now and we changed to bikes of other manufacturers. May be there will be a change back to Triumphs in the future.