I had a Tyre Fitter patch the smallest of holes (1mm ) right in the middle of the rear. Invisible to the naked eye and patched on the inside. This tyre has lots of wear left and was going to wear it out this Summer, with mixed riding motorway, back roads, and local.Its just started to square off. Would you ride for a couple of thousand miles on this? Or to put it another way Has anyone ever had or heard of a patch fail??
Nope, never heard of one fail, and have ridden with one fitted, no problems. Really wouldn't worry me at all.
No problem with patches mate Used to work in a motorcycle workshop and fitted them all the time.....never failed
I've only had a couple of punctures and both within 300 miles on a new tyre. Both of them I took off the wheel, put a patch on the inside, re-fitted the tyre and then ragged it til worn. Never had a problem or even lost pressure.
It sometimes amazes me, when a bunch of d0-lally halfwits, like you guys, actually all come together and agree on something sensible !!! Well Done. When I saw this and replied, I was waiting for all the doomsayers to pop up and be all full of 'oh, not safe, tyres what keeps you safe, you'll probably die.... Makes me proud to be part of a group where sensibilities take precedence of eejits with mistaken beliefs, like wot you see on the idiot forums ( ie any GSXR forum). God bless you all I am proud to be a d0-lally halfwit with you
Makes a change from the merchants of doom and nay Sayers. Prehaps if he had said just plug it rather than a professional plug then maybe we would have but we will never know now
Long ago I would have said no way would I ride on a patched tyre, but on my commute to work on my GSXR I went through a stream of regular punctures, it got expensive to change tyres so I took the bike to a local bike workshop and had one patched one lunchtime. I rode on that tyre for weeks until it was just legal and needed to be changed. Now I have a different opinion of a patched/plugged repair. I guess things have come a long way with modern techniques of repairing tyres. So I say go for it.
I won't go near that "blue snot" it didn't stop a front wheel puncture on a Portuguese motorway and then it lubricated the "sticky string" repair that has worked many times before, had to get recovered and buy a new tyre. The next year a rear wheel puncture fifty miles east of Marrakesh fixed with "sticky string" rode it home to Northants and a couple of thousand miles further. I always carry a repair kit and a 12v pump.
The tire was changed a couple of weeks ago,way past its best. the repair caused no issues, and I would not hesitate to do this again.I travelled 3000 miles on it no problem. Ive got more goop too, the whole time the repair was there the tire was full of goop, and when I got the tire removed I had a small green dot on the outside,that must have appeared within a few days,and the tire had good pressure.
Just as an aside on this. I carry on long trips a plugging kit and small compressor. I’ve always thought of those plugs as a temporary measure till you got somewhere you could get the tyre looked at. Better to plug it than be stranded in the middle of nowhere imv. I know the RAC/AA would plug your tyre at the roadside at one point but not sure if they still do. The compressor is just so that I don’t have to carry two millon of the small CO2 canisters that seem to be part of the kit. A couple of the crew at our last GMU used my compressor to pump their tyres up, can’t remember who but it’s a lovely small size. I keep the plugging kit in the compressor bag
Ive got a repair kit and canisters.If I get 5 minutes when Im not spending on other stuff Id like a mini-compressor.
