AndyMc

Hi I,ve just got a puncture on the rear of my ZXR750.Does anybody know if I can get it fixed or is it a bad idea on a sports bike.The tyre is a Dunplop D207

PS
Q how long does a tyre last?
A twelve months if its a good year! He He

Cheers Andy

Richard Askew

..buy a new oneĦĦĦĦ!!!!!!

jjones

buy a new one? if you can afford a hundred notes when maybe you have only done 300 miles on it.

yes mate you can repair a motorcycle tyre . but it all depends where the hole is - side wall forget it - in the middle of the tread pattern - should be alright. if the tyre shop refuses to do it (let's face it there could be a new tyre sale ast stake here!) - you can buy repair kits from M&P and it's quite simple to do yourself!) but remember a tyre shop may refuse to repair it for a good reason - use a bit of common sense

i have 207's fitted to mine so - presumably you are after a bit of mileage as well as out and out grip

repaired a pirelli dragon once - had no bother with it.

good luck

neilbbb

apparently it's illegal to repair a motorbike tyre.

I had a a nail in my rear tyre after 200 miles and got it plugged (with a mushroom shaped thingie). 2000 miles later its still fine

Mike Burton

I've heard many a thing about repairing motorbike tyres, and I also have a "mate" at the local garage who can repair them. However I decided to buy a new 207RR when I got a peice of wire through the one I'd just done ~300miles on.
So I took it to Miles Kingsport in Hull, bought my new one and took it through to the workshop. The workshop manager took the wheel and tyre off me and asked what was wrong with the one on the rim.... I said it had a puncture, pointed it out and he said, "so why have you bought a new tyre?".

Well the conversation went on for a while, about how I'd heard about not repairing bike (ZR rated) tyres to which he basically said it was a load of crap.

He's been repairing tyres for years (those that are safe to do so) and he's never heard of one failing. So I got my new tyre on and got the old (300 miles) one plugged, complete with receipt to say they have done it.

If it was illegal, they wouldn't give out receipts to say they had done the work.

I guess, much like car tyres, it depends on what kind of puncture it is. The one I talk about above was caused by a peice of wire, much like the stuff you find actually holds tyres together. i.e very thin. I beleive I picked it up on York Dragway.

So I've now got a near enough brand new 207RR on the bike, complete with a near enough brand new spare that I can take to track days with me.

NotoriousREV

While I wouldn't use a plugged tyre on the track, it'll be fine for road use. I got a screw in my BT010 when it was 16 miles old, no way on this earth was I gonna throw it away!

As long as you use the mushroom shaped Plug-patch you'll be fine (got mine from Kwik-Fit for nowt, gave me and handful of 'em).

Couple of thousand miles later, no problems.

neilbbb

it was a main dealer who told me it was illegal(unless he just wanted to sell me a tyre).

The plug works fine and have had no problems. With today's sticky rubber this must happen all the time.

fast bloke

It has never been illegal to repair a bike tyre, but since 1998 many insurance companies specify that you should not get them repaired, and that if you have an accident caused by repaired tyres you may not be covered. There is one tyre company who will give you a puncture warrenty. IE - If you get a puncture on a 500 miles tyre, they will replace it and only charge you for 500 miles worth of wear. Can't for the life of me remember who it is, but I'm sure google will know

Mike Burton

Avon will replace any motorbike tyre as long as you've used =< 1mm of tread on the tyre. That happend to me at Donington 2 years ago. Brand new Azaro(sp?) rode 75 miles down the M1, did two sessions on the race track and then found a split link stuck in the rear. I rode to the nearest shop and got a 207SP, and carried on the trackday, missing only one session.

IMHO, Avon were superb then. I'd used more than 1mm of tread on the sides, as I'd just done a fair few laps of the circuit. The tyre was scuffed up and had small bits of rubber hanging off it. They still sent me a cheque for £130.

However.... I must say the 207SP did feel better than the AzaroII, and I've since moved onto 207RR's. The 207SP also gave me a bit more tyre to play with before riding off the edge.

Not tried the new new Avon's, so can't comment on those.

Mike Burton

Assume the worst does happen, and my plugged tyre goes bang, guess why I've kept the receipt for the reapair.... (this also assumes Im still alive).

drumsterphil

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I've had rear ZR rated tyres repaired before and it's only been done on the acknowledgement that there is not guarantee if the plug fails.

Never had a repair fail yet, so I thoroughly recommend the repair route (unless, as said earlier, money is no object). However, I was also under the impression that repair to ZR tyres was illegal so you might find some places that are not prepared to repair them.

DP.

Richard Askew

...my original answer was not meant to take the pi55 - I work in the bike trade and it was my view...

IMHO I would never ride a machine capable of 170mph plus easily, on a repaired tyre...

..someone said "yeah if you can afford a coupla hundred quid for a new one." my answer to that would be: "is your life valued at a more than a coupla hundred quid?? I think so "

kryten

Can't remember the name, but saw an ad recently for a place that makes car/bike tyres 'puncture proof' - some sort of treatment.

I'll look up the name, but anyone got any experience of this sort of thing?

AndyMc

Cheers guys

The tyre is only about 1/3 worn so I wasn't planning on replacing it unless I had too.
I am going to get a local well regarded bike tyre specialist to repair it.The bloke told me they used to fix them themselves but now they have to send them off to a specialist so it sounds like they'll do a good job.

ps one of the places I rang said they would put in an innertube and would be limited to 50 mph.I thought he was joking but he wasn't

[Edited by AndyMc - 6/11/2002 11:12:45 PM]