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Post by Bluefront on Nov 8, 2009 5:47:52 GMT -5
I've got an Eagle 50 with the stock 10" Chinese tires. Say I get a nail while moving....what are the chances of the tire bead coming loose from the rim? What are the chances of a crash because of it?
If the tire bead stays on the rim, could it be temporarily repaired with a plug, and a small Slime compressor (which I'm now carrying). Just curious....
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Post by nikolai on Nov 8, 2009 9:30:05 GMT -5
Bead coming loose from the rim? Doesn't seem likely. If you're using tubeless tires and you get a nail in it, chances are you'd even have enough time to slow down safely before the tire loses too much air to be unstable ( in my experience I often discovered the nail by chance the following day -- and the tire hasn't lose any air.) I use a conventional plug kit and bicycle pump on the road.
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Post by harrywr2 on Nov 8, 2009 21:32:42 GMT -5
What are the chances of a crash because of it? I think one gently slows to a stop if one discovers the tire has gone flat. |
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Post by Bluefront on Nov 9, 2009 5:07:57 GMT -5
No doubt every incident of this kind might have different results. My first scooter had a rear tire actually blow out at speed.....locked up the rear wheel and I skidded to a stop (scary). I had the front tire of a cycle go completely flat at 50mph.....I slowly came to a stop (felt like I was on a water-bed). Anyway.....I'm wondering how this 10" tire would handle going flat while driving, since I weigh about 230lbs.  |
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Post by backroads on Nov 9, 2009 10:26:38 GMT -5
''''''````````````````|l|``````````````````````````````` A flat was quite hairy  for me. The bike tended to go all over the place. I held on to the handlebars tight and balanced the bike as best as I could and brought it to a stop slowly. |
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Post by fuloydo on Dec 23, 2009 17:55:00 GMT -5
I had a rear tire valve stem fail on the interstate last summer. The only thing that told me I was going flat was my speed began dropping rapidly and the handling got a little squirrely. (It got a LOT squirrely by the time I got it home!) Fortunately I was less than a mile from my exit and I live about a mile beyond that. I ruined the tire riding it home flat but I wanted new tires anyway and it beat paying for a tow truck which would have cost about what I paid for two new Avons.
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Post by ♣Luke♣ on Dec 24, 2009 0:38:07 GMT -5
if you had a flat tire on wot, just release the throttle and make sure not to apply brake on the flat wheel. feel where the flat is before you apply brakes. but mind you,front wheel flat tire at wot can be fatal.
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Post by daniel50ccsunel on Jan 15, 2010 12:37:46 GMT -5
I had the rear tire go flat at about 45 on a chinese 3.50-10 tires. When I first noticed it I starded hitting breaks because I knew something was not right. Took all of about 4 sec for it to go complety flat. the rear end was all over the place and almost complety side ways at times. But got it stoped with out going down. Also the beed did come lose on one side.
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Post by wolver888 on Feb 28, 2010 12:11:33 GMT -5
I had a nail puncturing my rear tire, the problem is, this nail is so rusty and not smooth, air came out sa fast, i just realized my rear's swinging sideways and the next gas station is about 5-6 miles away.
Now the bigger problem is, for tubeless tires when the tire bead gets off from the rim's bead seat, it can't be inflated by a simple tire pump, it requires a higher air pressure for the tire bead to lock in place. You can temporarily solve the puncture problem by using a tire plug but it ain't easy inflating it with a tire pump ... had that problem couple of years ago ... and i don't wanna have it happen again, hahaha!
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for me. The bike tended to go all over the place. I held on to the handlebars tight and balanced the bike as best as I could and brought it to a stop slowly. 