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Debris on Skyline

TwistedBuddha

TwistedBuddha

Single-track mind
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That Guy
Flattened my rear tire faster than you can say, "Why is turning hard?"

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Holy yikes! Glad you made out of that one ok. Not patchable I imagine?
 
whoa

:wtf Glad you are ok too, scary!
 
Karbon said:
Holy yikes! Glad you made out of that one ok. Not patchable I imagine?
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Once I got the bike to a safe spot, I dug out the patch kit and started looking for the puncture. When I saw that thing sticking out of my tire, I just laughed, put the kit away and dug out my cell phone.
 
LOL ^^^^ at least you found humor in it.. I didn't when I got stuck in Monterey with no plug kit. :(
 
Holy cow! I have never seen or heard of a tire getting punctured by a piece of wood. The piece you show does not look particularly sharp on either end but maybe it is just the way it was photographed?

It probably does not make a difference, but how soft are your tires? What pressure were you running?
 
+1 on the wow....what kind of tire is that don't recognize the tread
 
there is lots of crap on skyline, alpine, pescadero... any road that has an overhead canopy. at first i thought some retard with a flatbed full of christmas trees just let the shit fly out. wind from last week F-d up dem trees.
 
GIXXER_777 said:
Holy cow! I have never seen or heard of a tire getting punctured by a piece of wood. The piece you show does not look particularly sharp on either end but maybe it is just the way it was photographed?
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The end that went into the tire is a little sharper than it looks. It's not a pointy stick by any means, but I certainly wouldn't want it hitting me at 50mph, especially if it was backed by something larger.

Which is, I suspect, what happened: this piece was part of something larger, and I just got unlucky in how it the tire. I didn't feel any major impact, but I did hear something bouncing off the back of the bike, like a rock getting kicked up. No more than 10 seconds later, it was flat.

GIXXER_777 said:
It probably does not make a difference, but how soft are your tires? What pressure were you running?
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37psi cold, set that morning.

YOUNGTHRILL said:
+1 on the wow....what kind of tire is that don't recognize the tread
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Pirelli Scorpion Trail. Tread was getting low anyway. I doubt I'd have put another 1K miles on them before replacing them. They were at 3,750 miles when this happened.
 
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