I was on my way home last night riding on the freeway when I hit a chunk of metal,[]No pop just a loud clunk. Then suddunly my bike starts to shake weaving side to side. I though I was gonna loose it man. My front tire was flat. I came to a kinda smooth stop. Took adeep breath then zoooom, zoooom. Cars start passing me at 70 mph. I was stuck in the freeway for about 15 min. shoot what a night. Finally the CHP got me out of there. I bent my rim alittle Not sure if its fixable, funny thing is that the tire isn't pierced anywhere? but its completly flat. Any one ever use their HOG membership? I got a free year when I purchase my bike. Call them up and after three and a half hours of waiting. I was towed home. Any one wanna share their story. By the way this is my first falt on a bike I always thought" The day I get a flat, im gonna hit the ground" Luckly I didn't.

Now I have an excuse to get me a nice front rim.lol.

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Good thing you were hurt!!!

Last year I was in Yakima, WA and it was over 110 degrees... I was at the Washington State HOG Rally. I was on a group ride when my rear tire (200)took a chunk of metal, I wasn't going very fast and I didn't drop it either. At first I thought I was on some sticky asphault. We were stopping anyway and I checked it out it was flat as hell. One of the Yakima Road Captains was leading the ride and called one of the members with a trailer. He was out in less than an hour and took me and the bike to the Shop. The guy at the shop booking the appointments told me I would be lucky if they got to it by Tuesday....it was Saturday!!! I told him I had to be out of Yakima the next day. The guy that picked me up spoke to the Mechanic and explained my situation, the mechanic got me outin less than two hours. Ruined a nice ride but like you it could of been very bad on so many levels.

 

June 27, 2005I rode the bike from a campground near Gettysburg PA to Hershey PA to visit the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum and stopped at Costco to pick up a few things, got lost a couple of times and finally gotto and visited the museum. Then in the afternoon getting lost heading back to camp I got off the wrong interstate near Harrisburg PA in the town of New Cumberland PA at a HESS gas/connivance store to ask directions. Once I had the course figured out got back on the bike (3:25PM) and discovered the rear tire was flat! Bike gave no indication heading into the station that any thing was wrong. I it pushed over to the free air pump and it would not hold air. So I calledmy wifein camp to inform her I was going to be later than I had planned. I called AAA and arranged for a tow. AAA in PA was surprised to learn that my motorcycle was covered by my WA AAA account on our RV. They called WA AAA to confirm before sending assistance. Because PA AAA is unaccustomed to providing this level of service they had to search for a tow company that would provide the service. So after an initial prediction of an hour to get help they called back and said it would be an additional two hours (6:00PM) before the truck would arrive. At 6:21PM AAA PA called back to verify I had service, at which time I informed them I did not yet have service. They called the company to find out what was going on and called me back to say it would be just another 20 mins. At about 7:00PM a wrecker towing a cargo trailer (setup for MCs) arrived. I was glad to see the trailer at first because I had a bad experience with the bike on a car deck roll back hauler a few years before. A closer look at the trailer raised some concerns as every corner, edge and surface of the trailer was bent, spindled or mutilated as if it had been dragged backwards through a forest. The inside was equipped with an excellent wheel chalk and ratchet straps but the floor was oil soaked and the eyebolts were cheesy. Off we went for the 40 min ride back to camp with just one brief stop at a bar along the way to unlock a Bronco fpr another customer. The tow truck driver apologized so to speak with an explanation that he has very little competition for the motorcycle trade and because it requires gathering the trailer up from the shop other tows often get in the way of timely service and the regular car/truck towing business is very competitive. I am just glad I was in the gas station when it let go and not traveling at 65 MPH on any of the interstates in and around Harrisburg PA, which I had been lost on for the hour before I stopped.

FBL

 

Damn, glad you're alright. I never had a flat, but I ran over a muffler doing 65mph about 15 yrs ago. Fortunately, I was able to keep the shiny side up, but it scared the hell out of me.
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I'm not dissing your bike!!! beautiful machine, that's what I was trying to get at other night about skinny front tire's and then all hell broke loss, I would diffently buy new front rim, still your size, but see if you can find a stronger rim that you like, and that suck's how they made you wait for allmost 4 hour's, good way for boy's in the hood jump you in and take your bike or even your life, I'm member of h.o.g too, but I fight authority, so you know how it went when I tryed the meeting's and told how to ride where to ride how fast I could go when I could take a leak, been riding since 12, I have rode in group's many time's, but hell they made me feel like I was in boot camp again, so now h.o.g well be on my case, but any way why so long? where they shopping for cheapest tow? I'm glad for cell phone and bud's with pick-up's

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Back in 73, me and the old lady were out cruising, and I was about to take off really fast from a traffic light, when all of the sudden the rear-end started to wobble real bad. Sure enough the tire was flat. I knew a friend of mine lived about a mile away. So, I called him, he wasn't home, but, he was due... I started pushing the bike to his place. What a pain in the A$$. After about 100 yards, I said, "Screw It" ... I fired it up and dropped it in 1st and just jogged along side the bike.
When I arrived at my friends house, grabbed some "OXYGEN"... My buddy had just got home. I gave him $25 and said get a tube and I'll be back tomorrow, so "WE" can fix it. He lent me a car,
I left to finish my evenings festivities... Well, the next day I went to help my buddy change "My Tire" and it was all done. My buddy wanted to ride my bike so he fixed it and was out riding all night... He had fun, I got my "Flat Fixed" and everything was back to normal...

 

Good friend's like that are good as gold when chip's are down, he fixed your flat, to me it is not real easy unless you have jack,tool's, then fun part of taking tire off rim, putting on not to bad if use little soapy water, but he lent you car, and I bet you wear not looking foward of fun with (rear) flat, and it was good to go! back in my houston day's one of my pipe's just broke right at jug, stress or cheap pipe's, well could not ride it from east houston 30 mile's to west wear I lived, called biker bud and asked if he could drive pick-up and take me and bike home it was getting late bad part of houston if you know it, but in a hour are so ,he and young son pulls up, they get out and he stopped at bubba's bike shop and bought me new pipe's for bike, nice baloney cut, took out tool box ,slapped them baby's on, really made my old superglide look almost new, they where not to cheap, but would not take my money for pipe's or gas, he just said next time it could had been him stranded in one of worst areas, and I could re-pay favor, I'll never forget what a good freind he was.

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My story is almost exactly the same.....Last year Memorial day weekend my buddy and i were heading east on Route 27 heading to Southhampton...We were doin about 75mph on a beautiful warm day when all of a sudden the front started to wobble like crazy..I pretty much realized right away i must have had a flat and started to downshift as fast as i could and lay off the throttle...I knew not to brake hard or i was goin down,After what seemed like an eternity i managed to stop the bike.By the grace of god i couldnt believe i didnt go down ..I called Harley roadside and it was a joke....After 10 calls back and forth and 3 hours i said screw it and called a private towing company....I know carry that guys card in my wallet all the time

 

About 12 or 13 years back, I lived in Nova Scotia. While just tooling around the back roads one day, just as I slowed to take a left hand turn at a rural intersection, even over the volume of the tunes from my Walkman, I heard a loud "BOOM!". Being kinda 'hillbilly' country, I dropped it a gear, and cracked the throttle, thinking someone was taking a potshot at me. Got up the road a ways, and all of a sudden I was fishtailing all over the place. Slowed down, got over to the side of the road, and realized I'd run over something, and what I'd heard was my tire popping. (rear) Pushed her for a bit, and as Nasty350LT1 did, I eventually put her into first, and trotted along side it. Eventually (thankfully) I came to a farmhouse. I threw the bike onto it's sidestand, and walked up the driveway, knocked on the door, and asked if I could use their phone to call my wife. (I didn't have a cell back then...) She arrived about 20 minutes later, with my can of foamy tire filling stuff (can't recall technical name...), and I cranked the tire back up to riding level with this stuff. (shoved a small twig into the hole in the tire, to prevent stuff from leaking out of the hole. Took off, with a white rooster tail behind me, but got to the house no problem. A couple of days later a friend came by with his truck, and helped me bring it into the shop. Since then, I don't travel without a can of that stuff in my bags. As for your tire not having a cut; perhaps you didn't actually puncture the tire, just whatever you hit bent the rim, and broke the bead seal between the tire & the rim. Glad to hear you didn't go down. Could have been REALLY nasty...

 

Damn man glad you're OK. Haven't had a flat....yet.