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04-11-2006, 08:32 AM
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| Grandpa Before My Time   Join Date: Jul 2005
Bike: 2008 Kawasaki KLR 650
Location: Dallas, Texas Directly above the center of the earth.
Posts: 11,240
|  Flat Tracking an M95 As I'm leaving work yesterday something just didn't feel right. Now our parking lot has been treated with something that makes it slick so I don't think much about it. As I'm heading out there is a left turn that takes you to the exit at this point I give the bike a little gas and the rear end breaks loose badly enough I have to counter steer. At this point I know something is wrong so I stop and get off the bike and look at my rear tire. It is half flat. Two blocks away there is a gas station so I limp it over there and fill it with air wait for about 10 minutes to see if it was just going to leak back out and then I make a dash to the dealer to have them check it out. The tire had a slow leak where it had been plugged in Daytona. (Over 4,000 mi ago) Well I knew I was needing a new tire so I went ahead and replaced it. So the stock tire lasted me 6,100 mi. That's not too bad. The Service manager said that I used more of the tire the a lot of sport riders It was warn to within less then an inch of the edge. |
