Haven't posted here for months, mostly due to ill health and not wanting to endure the endless bickering about CT legalities. BUT, I'm here to show you darksiders TWO photos and explain them.
Beautiful afternoon here and I've decided to ride a while... at 55 MPH just .6 mile from my house. Big BANG! And the back end wiggled a small bit. Just pulled in the clutch and let it coast to a stop, which didn't take long as the air was rapidly escaping.
Got off to inspect the Hankook V12 and found it flat. Well, more than flat, punctured by an 8 inch long screw bolt that went through the tread and came out the sidewall. In my opinion I think had this been a MC tire my butt would be lying in the ditch right now, waiting for an ambulance. The stiff sidewall of the Hankook not only kept the puncture from being a catastrophic blow out, but allowed me to slowly (5 MPH) ride back to my house.
Body of the bolt managed to scrape up my rim, and I didn't help that by riding over half a mile on the flat. But if that's all I have to worry about, I'm okay with it.
Notice the amount of tread left on this tire.... about 20,000 miles on in now. I'm going to replace it with another CT, just haven't figured out which yet.
Anybody wants to give me a constructive comment, send me an email. Otherwise this is my last post on this thread. Oncologists are telling me I'm facing pancreatic cancer now and I just don't have time for all of the hoo-ha.
Regards,
Lee
Beautiful afternoon here and I've decided to ride a while... at 55 MPH just .6 mile from my house. Big BANG! And the back end wiggled a small bit. Just pulled in the clutch and let it coast to a stop, which didn't take long as the air was rapidly escaping.
Got off to inspect the Hankook V12 and found it flat. Well, more than flat, punctured by an 8 inch long screw bolt that went through the tread and came out the sidewall. In my opinion I think had this been a MC tire my butt would be lying in the ditch right now, waiting for an ambulance. The stiff sidewall of the Hankook not only kept the puncture from being a catastrophic blow out, but allowed me to slowly (5 MPH) ride back to my house.
Body of the bolt managed to scrape up my rim, and I didn't help that by riding over half a mile on the flat. But if that's all I have to worry about, I'm okay with it.
Notice the amount of tread left on this tire.... about 20,000 miles on in now. I'm going to replace it with another CT, just haven't figured out which yet.
Anybody wants to give me a constructive comment, send me an email. Otherwise this is my last post on this thread. Oncologists are telling me I'm facing pancreatic cancer now and I just don't have time for all of the hoo-ha.
Regards,
Lee
