flat tires...what do you do?

[indy]

I picked up a giant staple and had a flat tire waiting for me last week.
Fortunately I live only about a mile from work and was able to fill it up and limp home before it went flat again. But this has me wondering what do you all do to prepare for flat tires? Canned fix a flat? Spare tire? Fill it at every gas station and limp it home?

[XPS1210]

I'm guessing that you have tubed tires like the vino?

If so, go to the store, get a bicycle tube repair kit... and take the rubber off, repair the hole and call it good...

If not... take it to a tire store and have them fix it.... That can stuff is great if your stranded and have no other alternative... other wise... it just gunks up the tire and make it unrepairable (permently)....

[indy]

No tubes here...tubeless. Yup, I had it fixed on Saturday at Les Schwab.
My question is more hypothetical in nature since I don't ride too far on my scoot; to/from work mostly, about a mile each way. I've never used the canned fixit stuff just because it does make a mess of the inside of a tire. I'm wondering if a few wraps of duct tape would get 5 more miles out of a tire that's got a nail or tack in it? It'd be easy to carry a bit of it wrapped around a screw driver handle.
Just a boring Monday here...doing a little of the 'what if' game.

-indy

[Lennox]

get yourself a plug kit before you use duct tape! Then have it patched from the inside at your earliest convenience.

[Angelfire]

you know the best plug to use just to get home is the same thing that put the hole in your tire if you see a nail in the tire leave it in there and ride it home.

I have done it a couple times on my R6.

[Spanky]

Actually, when i had my vino for about a week, i went to ride one morning and the front tire was just flat. I filled it with air and over the next couple days it seemed fine, but then needed more air (but not alot). When i took it in to have it delimited (the dealership is literally up the street) we all noticed at the same time once it was up on the jack, that i had a fat screw stuck all the way in my front tire.

The tires are TUBELESS.

They couldn't plug it, but in lieu of replacing the tire, they found a tube that fit in perfectly. So now i am half tube, half tubeless. Until i spring for the whitewalls, that is.

I Just keep one of those new-ish devices that looks like a nice Pressure gauge, but it fills up a tire with a small CO2 cartridge, and a tube of superglue. In an emergency, i can refill the tire, fill the hole with the glue, and it will get me home.

[florida derbi rocket]

Lennox posted a Picture of a Nice repair kit with one of those CO2 guns..and a plug kit... as those of us that live in Florida know....Laborers sit in the beds of the Pick-ups and Throw Handfuls of nails onto the road :eek: John

[brianmef]

I just bought one of these. Now I will never worry about running over a nail or something like that on the scooter again. Since Zuma tires are tubeless, I'll be able to fix it right away with this. I've had a small hand pump that fits under the seat for awhile, but I would need something to fix the tire also, and this is why I bought this. If you are interested in where I bought this, I bought it here: http://www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1419458&cp=1254883.1255103.1259017

http://ace.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pACE2-1189481reg.jpg

[Snyeed]

A thing my dad always does if your running a tire with a tube, After you get a flat and cant fix it, cut the tire down the seam and lay it around the new tube. then just put it in the tire and fill it with air. Gives it just alittle more protection. :)

[crxlurp]

A thing my dad always does if your running a tire with a tube, After you get a flat and cant fix it, cut the tire down the seam and lay it around the new tube. then just put it in the tire and fill it with air. Gives it just alittle more protection. :)Snyeed that didnt make any sense to me. maybe tonight you can draw a diagram for me???

[brianmef]

I think Snyeed meant to cut the old tube down the seam and then wrap it around the new one to give it more protection. Since Zuma's don't have tubes, I won't need to do that.

[florida derbi rocket]

I know along with a plug kit....Im gonna carry one of those small hand bike pumps............if you can catch a puncture in time...... the remaining air pressure in the tire helps quickly seal a plug that you just put in.

[Snyeed]

ya thats what i meant brianmef but I wasnt directing it twords the zuma. Just anything with a tube.

[sooznd]

A thing my dad always does if your running a tire with a tube, After you get a flat and cant fix it, cut the tire down the seam and lay it around the new tube. then just put it in the tire and fill it with air. Gives it just alittle more protection. :)
Great idea--works like those plastic tire liners they put on bicycle tires to protect from thorns & stuff.