Puncture repair kit advice needed

[Guest]

I'm new to bikes and ride a Suzuki GZ 125. What puncture repir kit would be best to carry with me on a long trip. Ideally I'd want to be able to repair the puncture then keep on going without having to go straight to a garage for a new tire.

[XmisterIS]

You can't get puncture repair kits for motorbikes like you can for bicycles!

The reason is that because of the much higher speeds/forces involved with a motorbike, it would be dangerous to put a rubber sticking plaster over a hole in the tyre. Also, motorbike tyres are typically tubeless.

If you repair a bicycle tyre and the repair fails, the most you get is a big *pppfffft!*, combined with the tyre going all flappy and you slowly coming to a halt.

If the same thing happened on a motorbike (i.e. sudden and complete loss of pressure in the tyre), the likely result would be ground/sky/ground/sky/hospital ...

[Guest]

Okay, well at least that's one less thing to pack for my trip then

[Guest]

Link to the pic of a tubeless repair kit

http://www.infinitymotorcycles.com/imag ... andair.jpg

I carry the same. I do suggest you have a practise on an old tyre first. So you know what to do by the side of the road.

A temporary repair, which should get you out of trouble. The tyre would still still fixing properly.

[XmisterIS]

I'm not sure they're really worth it though because you still need to get to the nearest repair place.

[Guest]

for something that lives under the pillion seat, and hopefully never gets used.... for a tenner it, at the very least offers some piece of mind. and they do work.......

[Guest]

for piece of mind, green slime or one of the other products that is inside the tyre, waiting to seal...