NHLycan
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Funny Story.
Like a lot of the folks on this forum, I do most of my own maintenance work. One of the jobs I can't do is mounting and balancing a tire. Not set up for it.
Any way, in June I swing down to the shop to get my inspection sticker and they say, "Hey your rear tire passes, but barely." I'd just slid across a sewer grate on the way there, so I say to myself "what the hell" and ask them to replace it.
10 days later or so I get the bike back, cause the tire was out of stock, which would have been nice to know before, but whatever, I'm a reasonable man.
I get the bike and take a 45 mile trip out to hear some music on a nice new road. That night, on the way home, I get off the exit to take the back roads the last few miles and the rear tire deflates all at once on me and I nearly wipe out. 10:30 a night and I get the joy of pushing my bike 2 miles home. Less fun than it sounds.
The next morning I take a good look at the tire. No nails or anything but the yellow dot is not 180 to the stem. Which is weird. And the fine fellows have 3.5 oz of lead opposite the stem. Which is a crazy amount.
I swing it down to the shop and ask "WTF?"
"Oh yeah we meant to tell you there something weird about your rim. It took a lot of weight and blah blah."
So we go in the back and I watch the put a new tube in, The old one had the stem torn out and two good lacerations across the top. Maybe from the long push home which took it off the bead, I don't know.
In goes the new tube and on balancing it this time, 3/4 oz of lead. Reasonable. The guy has no idea what he did wrong the first time and is mystified so I chalk it up to a funky tube combined with an idiot, thank him for his time and leave.
Yesterday I take the bike out for a spin; 45 miles out and on the way home, it blows the tube again, which is scary as hell at 65mph in heavy traffic.
100 dollars for the trailering home I have a drink to steady my nerves and start looking for nails. Nope.
Stems torn loose from the tube. Again.
And of course everybody's closed today.
The new tire is a Dunlop K555 140/80- 15 M/C.
Friends, neighbors, fellow citizens of SuzukiSavage.com, lend me your brains.
What's going on? Are they trying to kill me? Is this the wrong tire for my bike? Do you think they're installing the wrong tube? How do you screw this up so badly? WHY ME?
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