A freak stake in my tyre

[big guy]

I was driving along on the bitumen and all of the sudden had a flat.
When I got out, I noticed a spanner had pierced my LT tyre.
Next day went to my trusty tyre place for a new one and the bloke was not shocked at all.
He said it happens a fair bit where the front tyre just shoots it out and if luck/bad luck on its side will penetrate the back tyre.
He showed me an even larger spanner he had in his jar of odd things discovered in tyres.

This is a 1st for me and it was an almost new tyre too.

[bee utey]

Well at least you gain a spanner
Was riding next to a friend on a road bike once who flicked up a gutter bolt with his front tyre, that aimed it perfectly at his rear tyre where it promptly went through the tyre, tube and inner wall of the rim and nearly out the outer wall. Messy and a real surprise. Brand new bike it was too.

[simonmelb]

Did they repair the tyre or make you buy a new one ?

It was quite likely repairable - the specs are linked from here: Beadell Tours : Tyre Repair - The Rules

[weeds]

did you get to keep the spanner?

[big guy]

Did they repair the tyre or make you buy a new one ?

It was quite likely repairable - the specs are linked from here: Beadell Tours : Tyre Repair - The Rules

Had to buy a new one, I did raise the question of warranty and he just said "Are you serious"?

[big guy]

did you get to keep the spanner?

I let them keep the spanner as a show piece in their Jar on the front desk with all their other goodies.

[DeanoH]

Did they repair the tyre or make you buy a new one ?

It was quite likely repairable - the specs are linked from here: Beadell Tours : Tyre Repair - The Rules

Maybe so - but would you really feel comfortable driving on it ?

Deano

[weeds]

Maybe so - but would you really feel comfortable driving on it ?

Deano

i had a major repair to a stacked (side wall) bfg mt that was brand new back in april

failed yesterday, slow leak from the major repair area i suspect, will wait to see what the tyre shop says

i only ran it on the rear axle

at $300 a tyre the $70 was well worth getting an extra 10 000km out of the tyre

i had no worries at all driving on it

[Pedro_The_Swift]

OMG,,

just wait till all the cooper haters see that--

[windsock]

Spend any amount of time walking along a roadside and it is amazing what you find. I spent many a kilometre of my youth trying to hitch-hike - I still have two pairs of pliers (side cutters and a needle nose), a couple of open-ended spanners, a small 4"cresent, and a small hammer in my toolbox from those days. In the last 3 months on 3 separate occassions I have stopped the old 110 to pick up a 90 degree welders magnet, a handleless rubber mallet and a 'G' clamp. Good thing about travelling at 80-90kph, your toolbox benefits as well as your fuel economy.

Especially fruitful stretches of road are outside corners, and immediately following rough patches. Industrial areas on the outskirts of towns are paydirt...

Also of note on the edges of roads are the many hundreds of nails, screws, broken glass and other sharp bits just waiting to be picked up in a tyre. All those who pull over into these areas of roadside are at risk of urgently stopping later on to change a tyre.