Re: [ST] Plugged Tires, Final Answer

[simonb@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Quoting STeve Duncan <xhippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> Ok, this is my last word on this subject, so here goes.

Promise? Even if I wind you up?

> Does anyone think that a plugged tire is "just as good" as a new tire?

No. But very near [1]


> Why on earth would anyone take a chance with a tire that has been
> compromised?

Has it been compromised? To a certain extent yes but not enough that it makes
any real difference. There more difference between a worn out tyre and a new
one.

> I don't get it.  Save a few bucks?  You are in the wrong
> sport.  Plugged tires are "compromised"  They no longer meet the speed
> rating they were built to.

Irrelavent as long as you keep to the speed limits.

>  Ask any expert, ANY expert.  Check any tire
> manufacturer's website.  You will not find anyone with technical knowledge
> for motorcycle tire technology recommending riding on a plugged tire.

They will all recomend fitting a new set of their own brand of tyre, what a
suprise. With the upsurge of litigation due to the "blame culture" spreading
from the States I'm suprised motorcycles are still legal.


> Tire technology is an exact science, our tires are built to exacting
> specifications for a very good reason.  I hear all the rhetoric about this
> tire and that tire in comparisons and we split hairs over which gives better
> traction in the wet, in the corners, which has better mileage.
> Ad infinitum.  And now all the same folks are saying, ah hell, stick a plug >
in it, it'll be "OK"
>
> If you people are gonna argue the merits of rubber compounds and thread
> patterns, FOR YEARS, and then turn around and tell me, ahh go ahead punch a
> hole in the mutherfucker it's all good, all I can say is..........
>
> Bullshit.  Hypocritical.

[1] To my mind I've always considered the fact that a slow puncture due to the
leaking of a tyre plug is less of a compromise than the sudden deflation of an
unpluged tyre due to a puncture. So in reality there is very little further
risk as long as the new design envelope is followed.

--
SimonB
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