Wastes little time getting out. See what I did there?
Watched that last night. Was all ready to yell at him for dissin' the rope patch. Imagine my surprise when he called it the best.
This may be of some value to some of you.
I carry a tire repair kit (Comes with rope plugs and a few CO2 cartridges to help with inflating a totally flat tire) with my sport touring set up and I consider it as an emergency use only situation.
So far, I have only had to use it once. I was way up in the mountains (outside of phone service) and no one coming/going by. It was the rear tire (Which is way better than the front in my opinion) and was able to get a little air into the tire, pushed in a plug, then added a little more air (I ended up running out of the cartridges so the tire was on the lower PSI side of things) but I was still able to carefully ride it about 40 miles to a gas station. They weren't able to help with a new tire (no surprise)...but we found a bike shop about 200 miles further along my route so I just added the correct PSI (not leaking btw) and comfortably rode it another 200 miles to the shop.
I ended up getting a new set of tires (Front/rear) as they were on the lower side of tread/life anyways...but I actually think the plug would have held just fine for the duration of my ride. Not saying I would have been pushing it with a plug in it, but it would have made it home I think.
Used 'em on bikes and cars... fix and forget... never replaced a tire because of 'em. Never had one fail.Never failed, but I always replaced the expensive tire. I just can't imagine passing a car doing 80 or 90 with a plugged tire.
If one does fail in the future, you will tell us, won't you ?Never had one fail.
I will.If one does fail in the future, you will tell us, won't you ?
A Marine in my squadron had one of those. He was ticketed in Jacksonville, NC at over 130 in a 45. His may have been a '73 TA, not positive. He probably had plugs in his tires too!Used to regularly run it out to 130... 140 mph.
I could build a cathedral !Now THIS is very cool - well worth the watch....