The front tyre kicks it up and rear gets it. I used to cycle a lot, sometimes in a chain gang (peloton). Mean spirited locals who didn’t take kindly to road closures (due to occasional club racing) would throw slack handfuls of such tacks on the road. Miserable bastids eh??
Well I managed to remove the rear wheel with my breaker bar and dropped it off at Carl Harrison's this morning. Since the hole in the tyre is tiny, he said he MIGHT be able to repair it depending on how the nail penetrated. If not it is more than likely he'll fit a new one. Hoping he will have it done by mid-week as the forecast looks good and I don't want to waste the opportunity to ride the bike. On another note I'm using this time to remove the rear caliper and invert it, as whilst I vacuum bled the whole system during the build, I am fairly convinced there is still some air trapped in it, as the pedal still feels wooly. I'll have to drop the bike back over to him in the next couple of weeks for it's first service, so that's one less thing for him to have to do.
Have had several rear Michelin sports bike tires repaired using a vulcanised patch. Lasted the life of the tire; including autobahn run outs.
Finally collected my rear wheel today, shod with it's new tyre. Bloody expensive nail is all I can say. Just have to wait for the missus to get home from work, so that she can apply the rear brake while I torque the nut to spec. Having missed most of the decent weather this week, I am hoping to get out on the bike again this weekend. Sadly I'm working tomorrow, so sods law it will p*ss down on Sunday.
I would have had no qualms about tiding a tyre with a fix. A few years ago I was riding down through France on a Fireblade to a track-day at Nogaro. Punctured the rear about 30m south of Le Harvre. Local garage patched the tyre without taking the tyre off the rim. Rode the bike all the way down, did two days on track and then rode all the way back. No issues at all. When I got home there I discovered that there was an urgent recall on the front tyre with serious risk of delamination and tread parting company with the carcass. Oh how I laughed…
