Depends on your comfort level.

1. Best - new tire

2. Patch tire and install new tube

3. Patch tire

4. Plug tire

You will find riders with each story and pro or cons.

Decide what your mental comfort is worth. The price of a new tire and installation.

Save a bunch and put a plug in it. Pull the wheel and pay someone to patch the tire.

Any way you go, someone will say there is a better way.

PersonallyI have a tire changing machine and a wheel balancer. I patch the inside of a tubeless tire and run it tubeless. Do the work myself and then balance the wheel, reinstall. It cost less than a buck for materials and takes about an hour to do.

JMHO

 

I carry a plug kit for motorcycles from Stop N Go. They tell you a plug is a temp repair to get you to where you can have the tire replaced. Replace the tire.

 

Take the tire to an auto shop,the new tire plugs will not give you any problems.I watched one put into one of our fleet vehicle tires and it is a permanent fix.

 

Grover,

Which tire changing machine and wheel balancer do you have?

 

my deal with not accept the liability of patch a MC tire. Pay the 175.00 so you are not thinking about it every time you ride

 

Ive run thousands of miles on a plug, its not a big deal. You probly dont have police run flats as they are not legal for consumer use and at least here in georgia dealers are required to remove them before selling police bikes. If your in cheap mode ,plug it, if not a rear tire is not an expensive investment.

 

Any ideas why? They are consumer legal for automobiles.

Just curious...

 

In my experience, any good tire shop can easily and safely repair it. No need to buy a new tire.

 

All I can tell you is they are Not D.O.T. approved for consumer use.

 

I got a basically new Dunlop from a friend of mine that he took off the rear of his metric because it had a hole in it. I put a patch over the hole, put a new tube in it and put it on my 77 FLH (spoke wheels). I've been running it like that for several thousand miles now with no problems.