Errrr, puncture? What?

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Bike felt a bit funny on the way back home - the rear was moving around rather a lot over the slightest thing. I didn't want to lean it too much into the bends as you could feel the whole thing start to shift across the road.

Anyway, got home and thought I'd just check the tyre pressures. Before I waited for them to cool, I noticed the back was much, much warmer than usual, although it didn't look/feel wrong. Waited for it to cool, plugged in the meter and it read 4.5psi!

Hooked up the pump but it wouldn't hold any air. The needle would get up to pressure and then just drop away back down to 4.5psi. Obviously, a puncture of some sort, but I guess I'd always expected that if it was losing air that fast that it'd just be floppy on the rim and completely unrideable.

Anyway - what am I looking at in terms of getting it fixed? Will it need a new tyre?
 
bike tyres have a thick carcass so hold their shape well!

wouldnt advise riding on it though! lol

if there is no noticable holes or anything and it is a slow puncture get some tyre weld/tyre slime - take the valve out, stick it in, put valve in, and then blow it up.

faster you go, faster it heals i was told. honest.... :o
 
BMW F800S.

I had another look, and there's a big pin stuck in it. Bugger :( Didn't see it at first, but looks like it might need a new one.
 
I thought mine was bad, felt it moving around a bit and when I got home it was in the mid-20's iirc, 4.5psi must've been very 'interesting' :p

As for repairs, mine had a nail in the centre section of the tyre, a pirelli diablo supercorsa, and after talking to all the tyre places within a 5-10 mile radius of work that I could fine (not many admittedly) none of them would repair a pirelli, all stating that pirelli don't authorise it. A couple said that the only manufacturer that gave the OK was michelin.
 
Problem is, the only place I'd trust to look at it properly is fwr, and they're a good 40 miles from me. Might just take the wheel on the train, or if I can find a temporary repair kit I could ride it down.

Do halfords do motorbike tyre plug repair kits?
 
Whereabouts in London are you?

There's a few places I can recommend to you, East & West which may be closer than FWR.

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I've also ridden with a flat, and it is rather interesting to say the least.

When riding with mates once I turned into a corner going about the same speed as I would normally, but I went very wide on the exit. I thought it was just something on the road until the same thing happened at the next corner......just lucky I didn't go off the road tbh.
 
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I'm outside London, to the north. Current plan is to get a puncture repair from the dealer and ride it down to fwr...
 
Count yourself lucky it's not an innertubed tyre.

I was doing about 65 on my old cg when the back tyre went pop cus of a nail and came of the wheel completely causing me to drift speedway style down the a5. Somehow managed to stay on the bike as well, lucky there were no cars around as I ended up on the other side of the rode before I stopped. :p
 
Riding on a total flat is weird, very slidey!! Had to go 2 miles on this

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