1 Thar she blows !!!! Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:58 pm
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Life time member
I had a lucky mishap the other day.
I say lucky because this happened when I was not moving!
I stopped at a filling station about 40 miles into a ride and decided it was a few days since I had checked pressure on the Tyres. As I tried to get the airline adaptor to seal on the valve something caught me eye that it didn't look right then PHEEEEWWWWWW the core of the valve shot past me.
What had caught my eye was the rubber parting from the brass core. Luckily I was near an independent bike dealer I know he picked me up in his van and returned to his workshop where a new valve was fitted.
I completed a further 275 miles that day without further incident.
The valve was replaced at the previous Tyre change and it had less than 2k miles on it.
Lucky it didn't happen 5 mins later when i was blasting up the motor way at Warp factor 6 (K....rpms)
I say lucky because this happened when I was not moving!
I stopped at a filling station about 40 miles into a ride and decided it was a few days since I had checked pressure on the Tyres. As I tried to get the airline adaptor to seal on the valve something caught me eye that it didn't look right then PHEEEEWWWWWW the core of the valve shot past me.
What had caught my eye was the rubber parting from the brass core. Luckily I was near an independent bike dealer I know he picked me up in his van and returned to his workshop where a new valve was fitted.
I completed a further 275 miles that day without further incident.
The valve was replaced at the previous Tyre change and it had less than 2k miles on it.
Lucky it didn't happen 5 mins later when i was blasting up the motor way at Warp factor 6 (K....rpms)
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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine from 1600 years ago & still true!
K1 - 1989 - AKA Titan (unique K1/K1100RS hybrid by Andreas Esterhammer)
K1100RS - 1995. AKA Rudolf Von Schmurf (in a million bits)
K100RS - 1991 AKA Ronnie. Cafe racer project bike
K75RTP - 1994
K75C - 1991 AKA Jim Beam. In boxes.
K1100LT 1992 - AKA Big Red (gone)
K100LT - 1988 - AKA the Bullion brick. Should never have sold it.