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TE310 First Time Out This Year...Flat Tire Solution

ncgrecon

ncgrecon

Husqvarna
AA Class
So I was out for my first ride this year on my 2009 TE310. After about an hour I had a flat front tire. Come to find out it was some sort of tarp nail. It was a 1"x1" piece of steel with a nail sticking out of it. Anyway I thought I would post on how I got the bike back to the trailer from over a mile away.

I zip-tied the tire to the rim with the heavy duty ties the HVAC guys use. I put them around the tire about every 6 inches. I keep about 10 in my tool pouch. It allowed me to ride about 10mph on the trail for over a mile and the tire never came of the rim. I was able to put a new tube on at the trailer and keep riding.

Might be a good ideas to add the zip-ties to your tool kit and they don't take up too much room or add any weight. It worked for me.
 
Good idea, I also remember reading in a dirt rider magazine the one time that if you were stranded with a flat and no tube to put whatever type of dense brush you could find, sticks, hay etc. and shove that into your tire. Just to try and retain some sort of shape and not do further damage to your rim. Maybe your idea with the combination of what I read could be a relatively good solution to riding out, just my two cents.
 
Jhunter said:
Don't we have a place in the Forum for 'Tips & Tricks' ?
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There's isn't a glum for it but maybe we can get a sticky at the top of this portion of the forum. I totally understand why there aren't a bunch of different sections here. At ktm talk there are so many that it makes it a PITA to navigate. A lot of stickies even become more talk then help. Making it where you have to sift through a 100 pages where half is nonsense.
 
85KTM500 said:
Good idea, I also remember reading in a dirt rider magazine the one time that if you were stranded with a flat and no tube to put whatever type of dense brush you could find, sticks, hay etc. and shove that into your tire. Just to try and retain some sort of shape and not do further damage to your rim. Maybe your idea with the combination of what I read could be a relatively good solution to riding out, just my two cents.
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I've done the zip-ty trick but never thought of the grass/brush trick. I bet you can ride all day on it if you do it right!
 
I suck these great tips into an email, then save them as a draft with a good searchable title.

Other variations would work too.
 
ive done the zip tie thing before works great. also carry a co2 inflater, one will fill the front and two for the rear, if the holes not bad.
 
I had a flat rear on my 02 cr250 in the first section of a 120km enduro last month, motoz rear tire. I zip tied it on and ran the rest of the race....just decided I'd run it till it fell off. It never did, I ended up sixth. Probably could have done better but I was pretty timid in the second and third section. As my confidence in the fix improved, so did my times. I'm surprised the tire wasn't knackered after that but it's still on, just did it's second race.
 
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