Good effort Guy Martin in the TT, great win John McGuinness, brilliant racing.
Attemted our first inner tube changes on the bikes today, since my valve bust off and Paula had her puncture. Back wheels off in a flash thanks to the wonders of center stands, nice neat 30mm nail pulled out, but the rear tyre on the F650 was a real ****er to get off the rim, so we resigned ourselves to being inept grease monkeys and gave up.
Moved onto the Transalp wheel and with a bit of swearing, grunting and carefully applied brute force we had the tube out and replaced with relatively little hassle. Back on the bike, inflated - sorted. Didn't even pinch the tube like a proper rookie should.
Does make me wonder what BMW are playing at by welding their tyres onto the rims .. oh no, I just figured it out - "please contact your nearest BMW dealer to change the inner tube". Yeah right. We did however, content with our 50% success rate, chuck it in the local - (non-BMW certified) - bike shop for pick up monday (since they were just shutting up shop).
Hopefully the recently purchased Ultraseal will do the trick and avoid the whole road-side puncture fixing drama anyway, but we'll see. Was good fun being out in the sun getting the hands greasy anyway .. note to self - Scottoiler needs some kind of shut off valve.
- Mark
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