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I think I've got a slow puncture on my rear tyre.

It's has an inner tube.

Can you remove the core and add sealent to plug it?

Really cba to remove the tyre and take it to a shop, and don't really want to pay a shop to remove and change the tyre.

Thoughts?

Close, in Devizes! Looking forward to riding the local B roads, especially around Pewsey, if I can sort the bike out.

Ah nice nice.

Yeah, you can slime it. I use it on my dirt bikes, works a treat. Take the core out, squeeze it in, pump up and ride.

Cheers. Ordered some, plus picking up a foot pump - the attachment on my Silca is such a ball ache.

On tyre pressure gauges, does anyone have a digital one they'd recommend?

I feel like I've got a a few analogue ones and no idea whether to trust them. Amazon is a classic shit show of too much choice.

Also has anyone had the situation where their bike feels different after not riding it for a while?

I genuinely feel like my bike is lower than it used to be. But it's been so long since I took it for a long ride idk 🤷

Too many burgers? 😀😀

You joke, but I did wonder.

I tried on old shorts earlier. Burgers are to blame!!

I have the sks one. Works good.

Bit of an ordeal to get this far, but I am almost ready to leave for ABR tomorrow morning.

Fingers crossed the insulation in the van stays up this time.

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I don’t see the cool box full of lager?

Safely stashed between bags of clothes

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Congrats you have achieved two wheel zen ;)

Omigod, Wayne Rainey rode his old GP bike at Goodwood today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPkCDenpoGw

Have fun, stay safe.

Man, 300 miles of California backroads in 112f heat on a 55yr Old Honda 175 is no joke. I hate it but kinda love the little cockroach for still going.

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It will be quietly laughing at your weak effort to kill it :)

I'm sure most on here may have spotted it, but a cross-post for a cheap, fun bike in case anyone knows someone looking for such a thing. Thanks.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/376553/#comment16581228

After a frustrating ride with a low pressure rear tyre due to two petrol stations pumps not inflating my tyre I'm half seriously looking at getting new wheels for my air cooled Triumph.

Where do I start?

What I'd like is:

• tubeless
  
• Alu rim / lighter wheel over the steel ones on there.
  
• probably the same colour - black rim, silver spokes, black hub... altho I'm wondering if black spokes would require less cleaning
  
  

Size wise I'm agnostic. I sort of like the old fashionedness of my scrambler. I know some people put more modern sizing on them, but honestly idk enough to make an informed call.

I had planned at some point to do a tubeless conversion, but that is just totally unrealistic any time soon.

Cheers.

Spoked wheels seem hard to find tubeless, going on messing about on older spoked bikes and a modern beemers.

Skidding past my DR, on someone else’s… because they asked me to rebuild their carb on the fly, so I gave it a test ride after… very punchy compared to mine!

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I know they’re spendy but can you get nothing from Kineo that fits?

Kineo

I'm starting from zero here, so I don't even know brand names, build costs or whether these things are normally otp or custom built.

Will check them out.

Bit of a shame I can't use my bicycle wheelbuilding tools to do motorcycle ones.

Edit: oh. Punchy.

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More interesting than skidding DR’s, here’s my small small recap from my ABR Fest:

Watched talks by and shook hands with Ted Simon, Austin Vince, and had a really nice conversation with Elspeth Beard. Also watched talks by Lyndon Poskitt and Ryan F9. Sad to have missed Lel Pavey and a couple others.

Spent almost zero time looking at bikes and the only one worth seeing was a near-pristine DR BIG that Suzuki had found in a warehouse somewhere (literally). Lots of men with erections looking at bikes they can’t sit on.

Ducati wanted 2 years minimum on your license so having waited from 06:30 until 08:00 to find out it was a waste of time, I was unimpressed. Was queuing for the Desert X, but was hardly excited either way. All stalls the same - queue at 06:00 if you want to get a test ride. All booked up by 08:05.

The Adventure Trail was okay. The entire thing was one big gravel trail for fat bikes. Way too dusty. Constant cloud of dust and too many people all fighting to get an inch in front. People didn’t keep to one side to allow you to pass. When you left a gap for the dust to clear some idiot would take that gap and fill your whole vision again. Normally someone who then failed to go fast on the not-straight bits.

The ‘expert’ route was most accurately described as ‘idiot-plus’ and provided no bother so long as you went without a hangover. These were the only sections of anything that wasn’t flat or gravel. The climbs provided a lot of dropped bike entertainment.

Even the idiot trail had masses of crashes and ambulance calls. It was shut for hours at a time because of too many people and not enough ambulances for the ones already injured. I nearly washed out going hard into a 90° gravel corner. Had to run off the grass a little. Said 30mph limit would be fine if I wasn’t going 50 at the time.

The highlight of the riding was ‘Little London’ enduro track, which was actually challenging and fast in between trees. My injured hand meant I only managed three laps before I was bollocksed. Definitely more what people with any experience were after.

Camping was okay (slept in the van) but the communication and organisation was shit. They tried to force any non-bike (ie even a van carrying a tent) into a far away field “for camper-vans” on the Friday AM. Having paid a huge £30 supplement sod that. Soon as they actually let us through, after holding us in a distant field until all the bikers had gone and got the best spots, I just drove to the regular site where the mates already had a spot for me. That was 09:00 (I turned up at 08:00), and that site was full by 09:30.

Toilets were interesting. Showers worked. Didn’t eat at any food stalls. Didn’t see any bargain kit.

Overall it was okay, but 10,000 people was at least 5,000 too many. I can’t be sure who they were actually catering for. Probably GS riders.