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Most fine or very fine grade steel wool is "FOUR O" (OOOO) but Colron do (or did) a FIVE O (OOOOO) grade used for polishing that is much finer and better for polishing. It used to be fairly common but seems less so now - last time I got some the only place I could find it was HOMEBASE. If there's one near you it's worth trying. The packet looks like this


but with "OOOOO GRADE" on the cardboard wrapper. Recommended.

Hope it all works out for you - it looks like a bit of a nightmare journey.

 

Went into the garage yesterday and rear tyre looked a little flat. Closer inspection a bloody nail was right in the middle of the tyre. Tyre is almost new with only a few hundred miles on it. Pumped some air in and it has stayed up today, only lost a little pressure. Bike booked into tyre shop for tomorrow

 

That'll teach you to brag about going out on rides all the time.

 

Hope you have better luck than me Steve. I had a slow puncture which was a nail right in the middle of the tyre. Now not usually much of a problem but my local (mate rate) bike shop where I used to have all my tyres done struggle with the BMW wheels cos theres not much of a well in the rim and they don’t want to risk damaging the rim or the tyre so I took it to National tyres who were able to take the tyre off ok. Problem is they (National) won’t repair the tyre nor would they refit the tyre which my mate was willing to repair. Only saving grace was the cost of a new tyre was only £5 more than the internet price and it was fitted and balanced.

 

Hope you have better luck than me Steve. I had a slow puncture which was a nail right in the middle of the tyre. Now not usually much of a problem but my local (mate rate) bike shop where I used to have all my tyres done struggle with the BMW wheels cos theres not much of a well in the rim and they don’t want to risk damaging the rim or the tyre so I took it to National tyres who were able to take the tyre off ok. Problem is they (National) won’t repair the tyre nor would they refit the tyre which my mate was willing to repair. Only saving grace was the cost of a new tyre was only £5 more than the internet price and it was fitted and balanced.

 

Yep hoping it can be repaired. Mind won’t be the end of world if I do need to put a new tyre on. Fingers crossed.

 

Talking tyres... bugger has ate his in 1600 miles, naughty boy!


Edit, should have put this in the non-Triumph thread

 

That is some serious tyre wear Andy. Can you get a harder compound to replace them with?

 

My tyre has been repaired by local tyre repair man. Only £15 for the repair. It is the first time that I have had a tyre repaired, so I’m hoping that I won’t have any problems. What are folks view on tyre repair vs a new tyre ?

 

I've had tires repaired that had slow leaks with varying degrees of success. I advise to watch it closely with an eye toward replacing it if you feel anything off about it at all.

 

Had a few internal plugged repairs in the past and never had a problem

 

Unexpected problem there... all the sports touring tyres seem to go up to a 190 rear, these are 200 and came with sporty Bridgestone s22's on. Was very impressed them, so much so I'm putting them on again and kind of an experiment to see if off the shelf lasts any different to factory fit. Will have to find an alternative for touring though, even if it means fitting a 190 which I think is ok to do.

 

I’ve had no problem with any repaired tyre, either car or bike, apart from paying ten times what you did cos I had to have a new one, that was a feckin problem.

 

It seems strange why KTM would change to a 200 rear? if the 190 is ok to use I'd be tempted to go with that otherwise it's going to get expensive!

 

Seems to be the trend with big bikes, maybe the tyre manufacturers will start offering bigger sizes in the sport touring category as more bikes go 200... hope so! I could be looking at 4-5 sets a year

 

Spent several hours hunched over bike with drills, burrs and USB microscope, tidying up the hole of the broken bolt I drilled out. By the time the thread became visible I'd already removed a load of thread After cleaning thread with a thread restorer tool the worst bit looked like this...



Bolt still seems to fit snugly, and there's 5 extra untouched threads at bottom of hole after the 12 old bolt used, so I plan on getting a longer bolt and seeing how things go. The damaged threads act as a thread lock, so will use a high tensile bolt and copper slip, so I know I can get it out in one piece if needed.

Would like to replaced the bolt on the other side with high tensile one, but I'm scared of sheering old bolt.

 

Hell yes - the tyre wear is so bad it wore out the rims too.

 

NASA would say that’s fine. Close enough. What could go wrong. Etc

Edit: what does this bolt do? If it just hold the chain guard on we’re going to throttle you.

Edit 2: Ah, it holds pannier frame - found it (several pages back).

 

not much we dont get a lot of it ,but its raining

 

I've had no problems with tires that were repairable either, Yorkshireman. And I've had a nail in a tire on my Mustang twice now--once last September and again about two weeks ago. Both times the nail was pretty much dead center and repairable. And Ford did both repairs for free. I shudder to think what it'll cost me to get a new tire (or perhaps more than one depending on wear) if and when I get another nail in one of those fat sport tires. Our roads here are bad, unfortunately, with lost of crap o them in addition to the copious potholes.