Patch and Plug Motorcycle Tire Repairs Made Easy - David Petersen

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4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Many riders lack the confidence and skill to repair their own tire at the side of the road and much of that is derived from two things, not having practiced the skills required and using the wrong patches and plugs. The story usually goes something like this: I tried fixing my tire once but every time I pumped it back up it just leaked again, so I gave up and took it to a shop. The problem with relying on a shop to fix your tire is that it leaves you stuck wherever your air escapes, yet with a little knowledge, preparation and practice, a flat tire can mean nothing more than a delay before you are back on the road. David Peterson loves flats tires, well, he loves to fix them. And over the years he has become an expert of sorts in tire repair, in fact David has invented some of the products riders use to repair tires. Photos and links for this episode can be found on our website at adventureriderradio.com. Adventure Rider Radio is the original and longest running adventure motorcycle and travel podcast and has been produced weekly since 2014! You can count on us to be there for you every Thursday with a new and exciting episode, we never miss a week. And we hope we can count on you for your support. Become a Patreon supporter for just $5 a month and get a sticker and ad-free listening. Make a one time donation of just $10 and we'll send you a sticker. A donation of $50 or more also gets you a shout-out on RAW. To become a supporter please head over to the Support page on our website. Thank you!

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0:00.0	In 1912, Carl Stern's Clancy and a buddy departed to ride around the world on a seven
0:06.6	horsepower Henderson motorcycle, which by the way was a whopping 934 c.
0:11.8	934 c.C. 934 c. producing 7 horsepower. Interesting. Now that sentence says so much I mean the
0:18.0	world back then was different. Travel was certainly different. More arduous, if not challenging.
0:25.0	But you can imagine the reliability of motorcycles of 1912.
0:29.0	It's not even close to what we have today.
0:31.0	I mean, even 1960 was not even close to what we have today. I mean even 1960 was not even close to what we have today but
0:33.9	think about tires in 1912 other than being round and holding air they're
0:39.6	nothing like the tires that we have today in a way we've got it so easy the modern motorcycle is
0:45.0	incredibly reliable both engine like mechanically electrically everything is
0:48.7	incredibly reliable but the tire the tire is also amazingly tough and reliable, but even still our modern
0:58.0	tires go flat every now and then.
1:00.7	And the reason I'm mentioning this is because I'm thinking, you know, the skill of changing a tire or fixing a flat tire in a motorcycle seems to be something that, well, let's say it's sparsely sprinkled in a group of riders standing together.
1:15.0	There are some people that do it and don't think anything of it.
1:17.8	There's other people who get very sweaty pombed about it.
1:20.6	And then there's a lot of people who like to stand around and watch other people do it in awe, like they're watching some sort of incredible feet.
1:28.0	And it's just a tire. Imagine what it was like to ride in 1912 or 1940 or 1950 or 1960. Our world has definitely changed as far as
1:36.7	riders but we still have to deal with the tire thing. I mean as reliable as
1:39.7	they are they still do go flat and if it's just this one little thing why don't more people
1:45.8	learn how to do it on their own and I think it's because it seems scary it
1:50.0	seems daunting this whole idea of having to take things apart and wrestle a tire on.
1:54.4	Well the fact the matter is patching the tube or plugging a tire is actually very
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