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Originally Posted by Bertrand
To alleviate your worries Tim, perhaps the answer is for you to practice more until you've built up confidence in your ability to fix flats and remove the worry?
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Ha, that has to be tongue in cheek, demi-frog!
Sounds like you've never tried changing the rear tyre on a Tenere. Chris Scott writes about the problem at Sealing spoked rims to run tubeless tyres | Adventure Motorcycling Handbook
Although running tubes, the Tenere has a tubeless-style safety rim.
I've had three rear punctures and two front punctures on the (tubed) Tenere in 50000km. On my (tubed) XR400R I had two punctures in 30000km. None so far on the (tubed) KTMs. But in more than 300000km on tubeless tyres on 1200GS, GSA and F650GS twin, I've had just one puncture.
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Last edited by Tim Cullis; 15 May 2016 at 09:26.
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