New Tire Phenomenon

[henzilla]

How many have experienced this?...

Install new tires and almost immediately get a puncture.

I know I am not alone as it happened to our Tourmeister enroute to Wisconsin after three days on new tires,replaced rear at rally and came back to hotel that night with....A BIG NAIL and at a bad plugging angle...he was sooooo happy:banghead

I just put new rubber on the GS last Wednesday and the next day had a roofing nail in the center...pulled it at the house to hear the dreaded hiss! Brand new Torrance with a nice hole in it. It will be coming off tonight to figure out patch or replace...I KNOW so don't start!:fight . Has a mushroom in it now. I have ridden interior patched radials with no issues, as long as it is not shredded inside prior to patching.

It happened twice on new Michelins and on a Dunlop on ther RT last year within a week of installs,two in the city, one 50 miles out.
Don't intentionally ride thru rubble, but this town is in a construction frenzy and lots of opportunities for those little tire killers to be found.
Seems I can ride a tire to it's wear limits if it makes the first week.:doh

[snoone]

I put brand new Tourances front and back on June 29th. On July 2nd coming home from Fly fishing in the catskills I was driving through the center of Wurtsboro on the way home when through my very loud music I heard a pretty loud pop.. About 300 ft down the road I was experiencing that old familiar wobble. Pulled over, put it on the center stand the tire was flat but I couldnt find the hole. Long story short is that I had to get someone to pick me and the GS up.. Luckily I found a Kawasaki/Suzuki dealer in Middletown that sent over a truck.. They didn't have comparable tire, so they offered to get one overnighted which they did and installed it in the morning. It turns out that whatever I ran over must have been sticking up through the asphalt because it pulled right out after I ran over it. The tech showed me the tire which was punctured and inside the tire were steel belt pcs that were shredded by whatever I ran over.

Anyway after spending all that dough, a couple days later I had to spend it again. I was pissed however I'm over it now.

[BubbaZanetti]

i (knock on wood) have not ever had a nail in my 3 years and 50,000 miles+ of riding, but if i were you i know what i'd do, i'd patch if i could. i couldn't imagine tossing a brand new tire because of a clean nail puncture. only if things looked fishy or worse inside would i replace. good luck!

[tessler]

My first set of LaserTecs, in the Winter/Spring of 2006, I was visiting a friend out on the Island. I'd ridden maybe 80 miles all told, running from the city out to Robert Moses St. Park and back on the Northern State and LIE when I got a wobbly rear flat.

Didn't realize it though until I rolled off the nearest exit and examined my luck at an Exxon. A nice puncture offset almost to the sidewall. There was a lot of flotsam and jetsam on the LIE that day and that's what probably nailed me. :hungover

[screwtop]

I had just put a new set of Bridgestone BT 020's on the Ducati and hit a 2" self tapping sheet metal screw:banghead . It was almost surreal because I saw it comin' at the last second. I had just enough time to blip the bars a bit to try and avoid it, but the front tire flicked it up, and the damn thing penetrated perpandicular right smack dab in the middle of that 180mm carcass. I don't rely on patches if I don't have to, so I shelled out the $$$ to get a new one.

[sgtboring]

http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=19473

[wmubrown]

How many have experienced this?...

Install new tires and almost immediately get a puncture.

That was my indoctrination into the world of motorcycle tires. I'd been riding my first '86 K100RT for a few hundred miles when it was pointed out to me I needed a new front tire. So I rode the 40 some miles to our dealer, got a new tire, and rode home. As I took the exit to where I lived, I picked up a nail. I didn't know that until I got home, but the feeling of an 'odd' front end was noticeable, and fortunately I only had 1 mile to go. I called the dealer to see about getting it patched and was informed motorcycle tires are not patched - for safety reasons. GAAAAaaakk! I removed the wheel, drove it back up to the dealer, got another new tire. That was some 130,000 miles, 4 bikes, and lord knows how many tires ago and I have not had a nail or flat since ... knock rubber, fiberglass, aluminum... whatever works ;)

[rinty]

New Michelin Pilot Sport with 400 km on it. Staple. Total bill for flat bed pickup and tire replacement: $575. Ouch!

Rinty

[hlothery]

I had four flat rear tires (all nails) in less than a year on a new Yamaha V-star 1100 I bought in 2000. I was famous at the dealership......nicknamed snakebit. Sold the bike and changed my luck.......knocking furiously on wood!

[henzilla]

New Michelin Pilot Sport with 400 km on it. Staple. Total bill for flat bed pickup and tire replacement: $575. Ouch!

Rinty

One of our clubmembers was describing a flat experience that took the air (:laugh ) out of a Sunday ride to a vintage bike/car show on Lake Austin... A 3" wide STAPLE in a fairly new tire...when he described the staple and the location,I knew it came from one of our utility trucks...we were doing a big job in area and are the primary users of such a large staple...:banghead