Flat tyres can ruin a ride

[VonGruff]

Ir was a stunning 24* day today so Lyne and I decided to go up to Etrick for lunch and afterward carried on up to Roxborough then over the damn wall and down the back road to Millers flat, back over the bridge onto the main road again and it was a superb ride --- UNTIL I was going up the Ras Junction bluffs and felt the front end get a bit sloppy in one corner so slowed down and got through the next two until I could get to a spot to pull off the road. The last 100 yds or so were a bit dicey but managed to get to where I could stop and when it was clear we pushed it 60 yds to a clear area. Gave the local garage a ring and they sent the Hannah out to pick me up. Lyne stayed with the bike while I got a ride home to pick up the truck and trailer. With it all back home and the wheel off I will get it sorted tomorrow and find out what is in it to cause such a fast air loss.
Stopped here as it was the first area I could pull off and pushed it to where it sits and I would be able to get the truck and trailer off the road to load the bike.


  

[Tooly]

It's never fun losing air in the front tyre, especially on the faster windies like those!
Glad to hear it didn't cause you any drama whilst moving.
Let us know what ended up causing it.

[ONIX]

Good lad keeping the shiny side up

[VonGruff]

It's never fun losing air in the front tyre, especially on the faster windies like those!
Glad to hear it didn't cause you any drama whilst moving.
Let us know what ended up causing it.

Just back from the city with new tube. He put air in the old tube and showed me the split in the seam so it was a tube failure. At least it wasn't anything I picked up on the road but really annoying all the same and explains the very sudden loss of air and squirelly front end in the twisties. I know that road and the bends from having ridden (and driven) it since I got my licence in "68 so know to within a k or 2 what each corner will take so losing air made for a bit of "clenching" but getting away clean matters most. One corner down from that one was where we wrote an Anglia off in the early 70's. He raced the car and reckoned it would (and did) handle corners way past what common sense would dictate but the corners up the bluffs were a bit much and he took out 4 of the old concrete posts with the wire rope with the posts coming up over the bonnet, smashing into my side front widow pillar and taking out the side of the car as they went past. The front wheel ended up almost under my side (passenger) front seat. Walked away with a few stitches and a hangover - from obvious pre crash indulgences.