Quick tire repair on the trail??
- wanaride
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Quick tire repair on the trail??
If your tire goes flat on the trail, what do you do to get your bike back to the truck? Is there a simple repair you can perform to make the bike rideable? Maybe a CO2 cartridge with Slime in it?
This hasn't happened to me yet, but since I am the "support person" when my kids trail ride, I need to be ready when this happens.
Any suggestions will be appreciated!
This hasn't happened to me yet, but since I am the "support person" when my kids trail ride, I need to be ready when this happens.
Any suggestions will be appreciated!
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- Indawoods
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I ride it back.... Hell I don't even notice flats....
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a heavy duty tube + slime up front can make for a heavy, clumsy,unbalanced and unsure front end. Probly wouldn't be to noticeable in back.Cturbo wrote:Slime and Extra HD tubes will make flats very rare.
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If I have my tire pressure low for soft stuff and I end up getting into some rocky, rooty, stumpy, technical stuff, I can tell that I need a lb or more added because I can hear and feel the tire bottoming against the the rim. I guess if i were just rolling a dirt road or grassy field with few bumps or obstacles, I might not notice a reduction/ loss of air pressure. Quality tires have less sidewall flex when low or flat. You guys must be rubber rich or somthin.
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With the frontend staying light all the time and the bobbing and weaving... who has time to think about tires... I check 'em before I go out. If one is flat when I get back... I fill it with air... if it won't hold air... I swap the entire rim and all out. I will fix it when I get back home.
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must be the KX forks are that much better than conventional KDX forks.
you can run a bare rim on the KX forks and get a better ride than you would with stock forks, tire and tube.
you can run a bare rim on the KX forks and get a better ride than you would with stock forks, tire and tube.
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I'll have to say that I've rarely had a flat. My first flat in almost 2 years happened two weeks ago. I had just got my forks back from the suspension shop. I noticed about 3 miles in that the front felt strange in the sand. In a turn it would "roll over" and then stick. Not bad enough to be scary. Also noticed that I felt the rocks through the rim a few times. This is all ST in basically rocks and sand. After we finished, we'd done a total of 40 miles. I was a tad dissapointed in how the forks felt. Loaded the bike on the rack and noticed the front was flat. Hmmmm. Probably why it felt a bit strange for the last 37 miles. Also probably why I was not to happy with the suspension. Riding on the flat was way more fun than sitting on the side of the trail trying to repair one.TopperHarley wrote:If I have my tire pressure low for soft stuff and I end up getting into some rocky, rooty, stumpy, technical stuff, I can tell that I need a lb or more added because I can hear and feel the tire bottoming against the the rim. I guess if i were just rolling a dirt road or grassy field with few bumps or obstacles, I might not notice a reduction/ loss of air pressure. Quality tires have less sidewall flex when low or flat. You guys must be rubber rich or somthin.
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