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Old Sep 1, 2013 | 08:12 PM
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Took the Electra Glide out for the day. The back roads of West Virginia can be a bit risky due to the gas fracking trucks and the material left on the road.

Twenty miles outside of the nearest cowtown the bike took on a strange handling character. I pulled her over and bummer..rear flat tire and the biggest bolt I've seen in a longtime lodged deep in her guts.

Oh West Virginia and no cell service with Verizon....thank goodness the one only home around offered a landline and hours later back home.

This is my time ever with a flat tire moving while on a bike. I guess I have been riding since I was sixteen and now sixty, I guess I have been lucky!

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Old Sep 1, 2013 | 08:15 PM
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Five inches long!
 
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Glad you are ok!!!!!!!!!!!

Did a good job there.. Imagine 11 feet of lane and you found that bolt with your back tire. Good aim!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Old Sep 1, 2013 | 08:16 PM
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Lucky for us, they seem to usually just lose air instead of blowing. Gives us time to stop. I carry a can of fix-a-flat. I don't know if it would have helped yours, that's big old screw!
 
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Five inches long!
I don't think I have ever seen a bolt that big in a tire before.
 
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Old Sep 1, 2013 | 08:44 PM
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Looks like a starter bolt. Ironic that someone else could be stuck somewhere because of that bolt!
 
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Make sure those cogs on your pulley are still rounded, not squared off. Loosing a belt sucks too.
 
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Yep, five of us riding and my scooter gets lucky....why me, lol. Real fortunate I was not going over 40 mph before it was to late.
Thank goodness it's only flat on the bottom!
 
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GM starter mount bolt.
 
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GM starter mount bolt.
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