Puncture Repairs - On our R100 BMW, we carried spare tubes, so that we could do the actual repairs at liesure and needed only to change the tube. After lots of practice (5 on one awful day in southern Egypt!) we had it down to a fine art - 45 minutes from stopping to being back on the road. If you lean the bike over on one leg of the centre stand, a.n. other can slide the rear wheel out, but if you're alone:- remove front wheel, re-install its spindle and securely tie it to the centre stand, tilt the bike forward so it sits on centre stand and front forks, the rear wheel with then clear the pannier frames etc. and come out easily. We broke the tyre bead/rim seal by crushing the tyre under one leg of the centre stand and did the job using standard BMW tyre levers and hand-pump (unless you're Rambo, you need to find a compressor asap - the best I could get into it with the handpump was about 22/23psi)
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