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Have No Fear! Plugging a Motorcycle Tire Isn't That Bad
It happens to all of us at some point. And you usually never even know it – unless your tire has gone flat or when you go to check your tire pressure and notice the shiny little ‘bling’ that doesn’t belong on your tire.
With over 7 years of riding this is the second nail picked up by my tires This time I decided it was time to learn for myself–and document along the way–how to plug a motorcycle tire just in case there's no one to turn to the next time this happens, especially while traveling far away.
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Believe me, if I can do this so can you. I'm not naturally mechanically inclined and am lucky enough to have a husband that normally takes care of these things. But since I'm going on more and more female-only rides it only seems appropriate to get myself familiar with handling some basic bike issues—like repairing a tire.
You’ll see in my video the repair was a little bit challenging—and I definitely had a couple of “blonde” moments that you’ll probably laugh about, but the point is it can be done just so long as you have the proper tools available.
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We all know how important our tires are so let me add this disclaimer: Plugging a tire is not the optimum solution. Replacing your tire with a new one is. But if you need to get home, and would rather not abort your trip by calling AAA, this will get you where you want to go. And as long as you regularly monitor the tire pressure and avoid high-speed race-like riding, you can extend the life of your tire with this simple motorcycle tire repair.
With that said, at the time of this writing I’ve ridden an additional 3,000 miles on this tire without any air leakage whatsoever!
—Lisa Catarineau (founder, Biker Girl Bling)
What I learned from plugging a motorcycle tire
1 - Getting the nail out was the easy part. Reaming the tire was not so easy. One thing I learned was the tool in my existing tire kit didn’t work out so well and needs to be replaced.
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