Plug,Patch or New Tire

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Originally Posted by TIGGER

Ok I checked just about EVERY motorcycle tire website and they all aprove the interior patching of their tires. Most want you to use a plug patch but all agree that the repair must be performed from the inside. They have different provisos,ie; tread depth,location of puncture,size of puncture,etc. In my mind that says it's ok to patch a tire cause you know they all have teams of lawyers who wouldn't allow them to ok repairs of any kind if it wasn't 110% ok. Ofcourse a couple of them grouse about speed, qualified repair facility, etc.

The thing I love the most was the parts guy at the local dealership telling me that he LOVES guys like you 'cause he hasn't purchased a rear tire in YEARS. He just gets the tires you guys bring in with a flat and runs them down to the tire shop down the street (where I went)and has them repaired($5 off the rim). He told me that he's literally gotten tires with less than 200 miles on them.

I was talking about the plugs. NO WAY is that shit safe.

I guarantee if you find a plugged tire that had a blowout or failure of any sort after it was plugged, it will have occurred right on that fucking plug. That doesn't say something to you?

Also, maybe a plug/patch in the center of the tire on someone's bike who does a lot of commuting and no hard riding is not a big deal.... but for ME, riding on the track and fairly aggressively in the twisties, no fucking way am I trusting that shit, especially if it's anywhere away from the center of the tire. If I'm going to be ripping at the edges of my tire with a tiny ass contact patch and the only thing I have to trust is the tire and it's compound, I'm not going to ghetto-fix things.