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Permalink Reply by Fritz Geil on October 9, 2010 at 6:50am

On the road? No. On the race track? Yes. There isn't much that sucks worse than blowing a rear tire at 140 mph, except blowing a front! Left hand sweeper, dragging the knee, front tire goes. I go down (DUH, right?). Fortunately, since I was geared up correctly and already nearly down, I just slid along the track for a while, and got up and walked away with nary a bruise. My GSXR1000 didn't fare quite as well.

Permalink Reply by Shadowwalker.357 on October 9, 2010 at 7:01am

Fritz Geil said:

On the road? No. On the race track? Yes. There isn't much that sucks worse than blowing a rear tire at 140 mph, except blowing a front! Left hand sweeper, dragging the knee, front tire goes. I go down (DUH, right?). Fortunately, since I was geared up correctly and already nearly down, I just slid along the track for a while, and got up and walked away with nary a bruise. My GSXR1000 didn't fare quite as well.

Permalink Reply by Shadowwalker.357 on October 9, 2010 at 7:09am

Awesome Story Fritz,
I am glad you did not get hurt.
I have had a flat tire several times in my life and of course the Oh Shit word came right out of my mouth a couple of times, as I was starting to drift into the on comming traffic because as you well know when you have a flat tire on the front of your bike at any kind of speed then its pretty dangerous and pretty much.... Oh shit,oh shit,oh shit, oh shit,shit,shit, shit.
HA,HA,HA,and HA.
Luckly I did not get hurt either.....
Have a good day, Shadowwalker 357....

Permalink Reply by Mike Walker on October 9, 2010 at 4:41pm

Shadow

Yes, I too have had the famous flat tire. It happened when these two guys spiked my HD back tire at a local bar when I was inside drinking and partying. My wife and I did not notice it until we were leaving. I was surprised at how some brothers I didn't even know were ready to stand with me to re-decorate that truck and those two guys after hearing the story. Nice feeling. Long story short, I left my wife at the side of the road and went to a 76 station and rigged a temporary tire fix filled the tire and rode with my lady most of the way home. She had to walk the last 5 blocks. Now I carry a full tire fix kit on the Harley for me or any brothers or sisters I find on the road with tire problems. Oh and that Bar has been identified through the biker grape vine as a no-stop zone. Seems to be working 3 years later.

Ride safe

Mike W

Permalink Reply by Shadowwalker.357 on October 24, 2010 at 4:16pm

Good Story,
I am glad that you had a safe ending to the story,
Flat tires can be a
real bad hair day
especially
if you and the
asphalt meet after a flat tire.
Thanks for your story. Shadowwalker357

Permalink Reply by Shadowwalker.357 on October 24, 2010 at 4:20pm

Awesome story.
Thanks, Shadowwalker357

Permalink Reply by Rodger Duffy on December 6, 2010 at 8:10pm

back in the days of an '84 suzuki 850 GSL, goin to work , makin a right hand turn at about 25mph,back tire deflated (didn't blow,thank god) . assend slid left and ended up facin where i came from...didn't drop it,and survived....

Permalink Reply by William Haggadone on January 13, 2011 at 6:35am

I have only had one flat tire experience. Back in 1985, I owned a Yamaha 550 Vision. When I took off from a red light intersection, ( more like a "Y"), I came around the curve and all of the sudden the rear end was coming up besides me. I was 23 at the time, had just lost my brother the year before in a bike accident, so you can imagine what was scared out of me. Anyways, I managed to get my bike under control, pulled off the street, looked down down and saw the tire off the rim. I pushed my bike about 2 blocks, to the gas station, put it up on it's center stand, and applied the air to it. To my surprise, the tire beaded back on the wheel, and never had a problem after that. Guess my brother was watching that day.