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I thought it was handling bad.....

.............ffarrk

geez that is only a small puncture

It'll buff out!

Your mechanic needs to do something about those wheel weights Che!!!

I thought puncture repaire kits came in either a thread type material or as a patch?!

Or is that all you had to replair the leak / hole?

Where's Stace, he's the bolt expert................

kishy strips!!!

bloody waste of a new tyre

OUCH!

Would have been interesting riding the right hand corners.

BTW - I noticed the valve stems on the wheel - does anyone know if they can go on any bike? And where you get them?

Ok, so it's a sharpened hex-headed bolt, I use those every day around the place to...umm, hang on, can't think of a good reason, although 'tent peg' or 'mother of all nails' comes to mind .

Why does it look like the product of some severe angst by an ex-wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend? If you picked that up off the road I'd think you'd suffer more than a puncture.

I picked up a large self-tapper screw in the car once, went in through the tread, came out the sidewall. Nowhere near as big as that thing though, looks like it's been especially made for the purpose...

Mick

Ratmick wrote:Ok, so it's a sharpened hex-headed bolt, I use those every day around the place to...umm, hang on, can't think of a good reason, although 'tent peg' or 'mother of all nails' comes to mind .

Why does it look like the product of some severe angst by an ex-wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend? If you picked that up off the road I'd think you'd suffer more than a puncture.

I picked up a large self-tapper screw in the car once, went in through the tread, came out the sidewall. Nowhere near as big as that thing though, looks like it's been especially made for the purpose...

Mick

yep that looks pretty deliberate to me.
just a lucky shot on the bolts part i guess.

this is why bikes are not good delivery vehicles to construction sites....

Man do those wheels need a good clean or what

By the way, looks like there is something in the tyre

Stace was here !

mgvette57 wrote:OUCH!
Would have been interesting riding the right hand corners.
BTW - I noticed the valve stems on the wheel - does anyone know if they can go on any bike? And where you get them?

Those particular ones are put in when changing the tyre, I've seen an ad for them somewhere, probably in a bike mag.

I can't find them, but when I do will post back here. I did find these: http://www.mcas.com.au/_product.php?sec ... rodid=1148

HTH, Mick

Late Edit: This: https://www.slipstreamperformance.com.a ... ts_id=7440 looks closer.
Some bling anodised ones at the bottom of the second-last page: http://www.topgunglobal.com.au/catalogue/19-5-00s.pdf

Reminds me of another picture i saw a while back, possibly even on here, a triangular cut peice of steel about 7-8 inches long, 5mm thick and 4-5 inches wide at the base punctured clean through a tyre in exactly the same manner, except the tear holes were something like 2-3 inches.

Mate you were lucky to keep that thing upright if you did get it on the road (which is where i think you got it as the tyre is still fully inflated, if it was done in malice i doubt it'd remain inflated, and if it did go flat, do you think the buggers would be bothered re-pumping the tyre up after gouging it?