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Old 10-04-2009, 07:43 PM
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My question would be how many people posting in this thread have ever had a tire go flat wile riding? How many of those tires where tubless? How many of them ever self distructed, lost all the air at once, just went flat all at once?
The fact is if you put a plug in it and that plug fails you will loose air slowly, not all at once, you will feel a squishy feeling when you turn, maybe a little wonder, thats when you pull over to the side of the road, get off of the bike, look at each tire to determine that it is infact a going flat tire, once you determine that is the problem, you reach into your saddle bag, tour pack, whatever and pull out your can of fix a flat pump up the tire and head to a fix it shop, assuming the tire is sound, no defects from the factery that tire will not self distruct just because of a plug, but as the poster above said, don't take the chance, send the tire to me and I will put my life on the line for you and test it myself.
Just last weekend I got a flat on my rear tire, tube type, I dumped a bottle of slime in it, pumped it up, road it home, road it the next day, then it started going flat again so I took it to the shop and had them put mag wheels on it and went tubless so I could make sure it was fixable on the side of the road!
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