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Jun 28, 2006 | 03:29 PM

#11

ashsammy

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RE: punctured

read again... yes it was fast!

Jun 28, 2006 | 03:37 PM

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04CBR600

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RE: punctured

If it was kph you were going about 90 mph. It is still fast, I just said not that fast because of the speed limits here and most of us go 90 down the highway almost all of the time.

Jun 28, 2006 | 03:58 PM

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ashsammy

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RE: punctured

230kph, i think these tyres don't deflate or burst like car tyres.... i went on for few more miles before it deflated. Here speed limit is 75mph(120kph), but radar cams are all from the front... seriously they have so many pictures of me

i might as well do modeling for them

Jun 28, 2006 | 04:02 PM

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04CBR600

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RE: punctured

ok that is fast, had the wrong unit for the speed. Why were you going that fast on the street then?

Jun 28, 2006 | 04:07 PM

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Illushun

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RE: punctured

People go that fast because they can. I'm all for a controlled environment, but it isn't always on a track where a controlled environment has to exsist.

Jun 28, 2006 | 04:19 PM

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04CBR600

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RE: punctured

I can see that, hope he was wearing some good gear in case he went down.

Jun 28, 2006 | 04:36 PM

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Jaybird180

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RE: punctured

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ORIGINAL: Brando159

Why go cheap with you life just get a new rim do you really want to take a risk i have been a tire tech for about 3 years i wouldt even put a bent rim on a car let alone a two wheel street machine and it will not balance and if it does it still will be off becuase its not a complete 360 and it not compseation for the bend in the rim so you ****ed no matter what just bye a new one go on ebay you can get one for cheap prolly my life is worth more then 500 dollers

Nevermind the discussion about why he was going so fast, we've all done at one time or another my "preachy" self included. I want to know the reasoning behind not repairing the rim. I don't imagine much stress to the metal during the repair process, and thought that a little heat would help. Someone please clue me in.

Jun 28, 2006 | 04:45 PM

#18

04CBR600

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RE: punctured

awwww you ruined the fun. Anyway on the subject at hand. I'm fairly new to bikes but with cars they don't like to use heat to repair a rim due to discoloration issues and it has a tendency to weaken the rim. Sometimes the metal expands in that area and changes the properties of the rim, even though to the naked eye it looks fine.

Jun 28, 2006 | 05:41 PM

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ashsammy

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RE: punctured

I do it every day, 125+mph, trying to get to work... and trying to get home. Is that a bad thing? since you said some has done it at least once!!! hmmm i am gonna think this through