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RIDER SKILLS: Motorcycle Tire Repair - What to Know and What to Pack

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4.9915 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This Rider Skills episode is a practical guide to roadside motorcycle tire repair for adventure and dual-sport riders. Instructor Clinton Smout shares hard-earned methods for plugging tubeless tires, patching or replacing inner tubes, breaking and seating beads without a shop, quick leak-finding, bent-rim workarounds, and true limp-home repairs. We compare compressor vs CO₂, talk what to pack (plugs, patches, tubes, irons, lube), and walk through the steps that get you rolling again when you’re far from help. If you’ve searched “how to fix a flat motorcycle tire,” “tubeless plug on the trail,” or “adventure bike tire repair,” this episode gives you the real-world techniques that work in dirt, gravel, and backroads.

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0:00.0

On this episode of rider skills, we got a practical guide to motorcycle tire repair on the side of the road at the side of the trail for, well, all riders, really.

0:09.1

Instructor Clinton Smout from Smart Adventures is going to share his hard-earned methods for plugging tubeless tires, patching or replacing inner tubes,

0:16.5

breaking and seating beads, all without a shop, all in the middle of nowhere, with what you've got around

0:21.0

or what you're carrying with you. In fact, he's going to tell you what you should be carrying with you, and at the end, we're going to have a list for you so you know exactly what to take. He's also going to talk about things that he deals with in the real world, like bent rims, torn tires. We're going to talk about compressors and plugs. There's a whole bunch to this, and it's all sprinkled

0:39.0

with Clinton's stories. I'm Jim Martin. This rims, torn tires. We're going to talk about compressors and plugs. There's a whole bunch to this,

0:37.9

and it's all sprinkled with Clinton's stories. I'm Jim Martin. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us.

0:43.6

We get a good one for you.

0:48.6

Sam Manick.

0:50.2

Sam Manick. Sam, Thomas. Most of them, Simon Pavey.

0:52.0

Jarsen, Snowe, Simon Thomas, Lisa Jarvis, Algeppardos, Jarson Snowe, Simon Thomas,

0:54.6

Lisa Thomas, Graham Jarvis, Bras Birch, Nick Vander,

0:58.8

Sandus, Justin Venn, Tiffany Coates, Herbert Schatz, Brett Tachs, Clinton Smote, and you're listening

1:04.3

to Adventure Ride Adventure Ride and you're listening to Adventure Ride Adventure Ride Radio.

1:16.9

And Green Jilly Adventure Gear offers American Made, heavy-duty luggage systems for all types of motorcycles.

1:19.7

You can turn any dry bag into luggage using their strapping system.

1:25.7

And of course, Green-Chilly Adventure Gear is tested in extreme weather and terrain to withstand the abuse that adventure riding gives it.

1:29.3

Tough, reliable gear, Greenchillyadv.com.

1:34.8

Experience riders choose the cycle pump tire inflator made by Best Rest products for one reason,

1:38.3

because they can count on it when they pull that out of their panier no matter what.

1:40.2

They're so tough, they're warrantied for life.

1:44.6

Bestrest has loads of other motor specific products like the Hex wrench, which is a combination tire iron slash wrench, and they're known for their top quality tire plugs and patch kits. More at

1:50.3

cycle pump.com. It's wind pressure that powers the Moto Breeze chain oiler. No electrical or vacuum

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