So just this past summer I was exploring Vancouver Island like I often do on my motorcycle and often I go by myself

exploring the back roads and any little trails I can find the logging roads etc and I was having a great day it was beautiful out the sun was

shining it was hot when I feel all of a sudden the back end starting to feel just a

little bit squishy you know that weird feeling if you've ever had it when you know that you've got a

flat tire? You're pretty darn sure. So I pull over, sure enough my back tire is leaking, it's

hissing and it's down to next to nothing at that point.

And I find the leak very quickly.

It's in the middle of the tread.

It's a hole that's been punctured in it.

No, not a screw or a nail or anything like that.

It's been punctured.

Likely from a rock, there's a lot of what they call ballast on the road there, which is a large rock that's been broken up, very rough and rudimentary breaks and chunks, so they're very sharp on the tires.

And I've got this hole to fix.

Well, it's not a big deal.

I have all my equipment with me.

I always carry it with me, so I just get into it and decide I'll just do the repair right there. But I open my

toolkit and what do I find for some weird reason that I don't even

understand today that the last time I had worked on just a few days before on my motorcycle, I took

that wrench out from my back axle and didn't put it back in. I have no idea how it happened,

but it happened. now my bike takes tubes in the tires which

means that when I do a tire repair I can't do it with just a plug it's not just

like shoving a plug in like you tubeless type people.

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