Motorcycle Tours To Spain: Top Tips - Puncture on Tour

[@bluetrain8602]

I love your top tips. many thanks for video!!!! I particularly enjoyed your second top tip min 2: 20 " just because you find 1 hole, don't stop" got me out of trouble many a time

[@RideSpain]

Thank you for your comments, appriciate the feedback.

[@codename_wind_official]

Thank you. I like to bring needle nose pliers, diagonal cutters to get the nails out and also cut off the excess plug. My dad also taught me years ago to bring along a cigarette lighter to burn the plug and melt it. It bonds with the tire better. It works! And I saved a brand new tire and continued to use it for its lifespan with the plug.

[@AliG-iq4gd]

The homemade 'Snoop' is a good idea! Throw away the CO2 canisters, and always carry a compressor. Carry a small bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol. Whatever type of plug you use, use some rubber cement to lubricate and seal the hole/plug (if plug is pre-lubed, clean that off with the Isopropyl and use rubber cement). Buy new tubes of rubber cement each year or two (as it does harden in the tubes over time) - cheap enough off ebay or Amazon. Carry a couple of different types of repair plugs, even if it is between a few riders. Use the most appropriate for the puncture. Carry a few spare valve inserts.

[@KetilDuna]

Thanks! You can get thin and sturdy work gloves - treat yourself to a pair in case of repairs.

[@RideSpain]

Good tip!

[@esrider7765]

I cary little bottle like that for also spraying around tyre edge to help remove tyre if needed.

[@sdavey10]

Great tip, thank you. You forgot to mention that as well as finding punctures, you also get a clean tyre....

[@RideSpain]

Good point!! ;-)

[@paulyflyer8154]

Great tip thank you! 😊

[@peterlamont1533]

A small bottle of soapy water is a great idea. Thanks! I carry a Lezyne bicycle pump because it is all too easy to run down your battery trying to pump up a tyre with a battery driven compressor.

[@colin20cal]

Have you thought of having the engine running whilst using the compressor to stop the battery running down 🤔

[@peterlamont1533]

Cheers for that. I try to keep gadgets simple and repairable. The Lezyne pump is simple, very well engineered and really is effortless. My sidecar combination has a 45Ah battery in the chair, so power is not a problem - reliable gadgets are!@@colin20cal

[@maskedavenger2578]

You are supposed to have your engine running whist using a mini compressor to inflate your tyre , to prevent flattening your battery .

[@joaosalta]

🇵🇹😜 i made a repair once on a tube tyre, not knowing i had a tube, but it save me 100 bucks, because i just had to change the tube. I repaires it with the same set as you, at the shop they refuse to do it now... but my old F650GS will not reach tremendous speed tough😅 Hope you had fun in Portugal 😊😜

[@MikaelFresco]

thank you my good sir. top quality

[@johnparish5498]

Great tip .. one question though, why the washing up liquid and not just water? Thanks

[@RideSpain]

Good question, the washing up liquid is to make bubbles easier!

[@paulstanley3612]

Shampoo works too, as I found out this day last week in the middle of France! Those freebies from hotels are ideal…

[@robertwalmsley755]

I had a puncture on my adventure bike rear tyre could not find the leak I used water from a puddle the reason was the tyre was totally flat ,I connected my pump put some air in and the bubbles appeared and I found the nail deep in the rubber which I removed with pliers then a Wriggle worm job sorted 👍😂

[@guyonacub4335]

Is that compresser a rocky creek pump If so, do you know any UK companies that sell the battery lead, as mine has gone missing Good valuable advice and straight forward video

[@RideSpain]

Yes it is! well spotted. And sorry I do not know where to get spares.

[@tombartram7384]

I owned a bike for nearly a year til i needed a new back tyre and found I'd been riding round on tyreweld. Good product. Why faff with anything else?

[@nickaxe771]

My bike has spoke wheels.....I very much fear getting a flat a long way from home....but I do li=ove my Chrome Spoke Wheel's and would not part with them...my bike is a 2020 Triumph T100. You say get a flat with a spoke wheel...means a ride home on the back of a recovery truck....yes I do have recovery insurance. But....as well as caring 6 co2 cartridge's I also carry a small neat 12 pump....even those small mountain bike hand pumps will put 30psi in you tyre in between 5 and 10 mins. But more important....I carry a bottle of TUBE SLIME.....supposed to be formulated for inner tubes on motor cycles. Not needed to use mine touch wood....but lots have with good results if used correctly. I fitted tyre pressure monitoring a few years ago.....to keep an eye on my tyre pressures....and hopefully give me a heads up if I have a leak....I have set the monitor to alert me if the pressure drops by 3psi....cheap as chips on ebay....£20.....very accurate and fast responding. Nick from Cheshre UK.

[@RideSpain]

Hi, I don’t think I mentioned spoked wheels?! I was talking about tubed tyres and tubeless tyres! Tyreweld and gloop can work well. Ride safe. Oly

[@nickaxe771]

@@RideSpain No you didnt...but did mention tubes....tubes normal go with spoke wheels.

[@marktansell8578]

Just got xcape can you fit just the top bx without the side bars as don't want panniers . CHEERS

[@RideSpain]

Yea, absolutely you can!

[@marktansell8578]

Thanks buddy might fit panniers at a later date

[@southernrebel]

Good Tip!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RideSpain]

Glad it was helpful!