Well, as you may or may not know I recently purchased a cherry condition R1100R which actually has all the goodies it is supposed to have. Factory tire patch kit, full factory tool kit, owners manual. Wow! Cool and all that, but I have never had a flat tire on a motorcycle ever.
Well that is, of course, until a couple of days ago. A good friend of mine called me up and asked me to join him windsurfing at a local lake using his equipment. Perfect, the wrench wench and I could ride out there enjoy the new bike and enjoy showing it off.
Two blocks down the street and the bike is squirrely as all heckin the back end. We managed to pull over and it was then that it hit me that I really had no freakin' clue what to do about a situation like that in a crunch.
Heeeee Yaaaaa..........
So here ladies and gents and any other assorted sentient beings that might be reading this is the official BMW emergency tire patch kit.
Yeah...OK...so what am I supposed to do with all of that?
Oh, and dig this, here are the directions...
Mind you I put this on top of the keyboard just for a sense of perspective and there are 7 yes count em 7 languages represented...talk about hard to read.
So now you can watch the video and then report back for further instructions...yes there is a video there believe it or not. he he
OK so the Wrench Wench took off with the video camera so this is how the story ends told the old fashioned way.
So you take one of these little rubber circular things out of the condom-like packet.
Put some BMW blue gunk on it...then hook it on your hook thingy and stick it down in the leaky bit!!
Oddly enough, once you get some rubber stuck in there, you can take the three little compressed air canisters and attach them to the white adapter which also goes on the tire.
Warning, SCREW THE WHITE ADAPTER THINGY ONTO THE TIRE FIRST!! Once those little casisters get punctured they blow out an impressive amount of air.
After unloading the three available canisters there was, breifly, about 30 lbs of air in the tire. And temporary, emergency fix to be sure.
Next we will look at some other tire repair options.
BMWeerman...out
