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Thar she blows !!!! Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:58 pm
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I had a lucky mishap the other day.
I say lucky because this happened when I was not moving!
I stopped at a filling station about 40 miles into a ride and decided it was a few days since I had checked pressure on the Tyres. As I tried to get the airline adaptor to seal on the valve something caught me eye that it didn't look right then PHEEEEWWWWWW the core of the valve shot past me.![Shocked](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_eek.gif)
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What had caught my eye was the rubber parting from the brass core. Luckily I was near an independent bike dealer I know he picked me up in his van and returned to his workshop where a new valve was fitted.
I completed a further 275 miles that day without further incident.
The valve was replaced at the previous Tyre change and it had less than 2k miles on it.
Lucky it didn't happen 5 mins later when i was blasting up the motor way at Warp factor 6 (K....rpms)![Laughing](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_lol.gif)
I say lucky because this happened when I was not moving!
I stopped at a filling station about 40 miles into a ride and decided it was a few days since I had checked pressure on the Tyres. As I tried to get the airline adaptor to seal on the valve something caught me eye that it didn't look right then PHEEEEWWWWWW the core of the valve shot past me.
![Shocked](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_eek.gif)
![Thar she blows !!!! 50464610](https://i.servimg.com/u/f50/16/81/84/59/50464610.jpg)
What had caught my eye was the rubber parting from the brass core. Luckily I was near an independent bike dealer I know he picked me up in his van and returned to his workshop where a new valve was fitted.
I completed a further 275 miles that day without further incident.
The valve was replaced at the previous Tyre change and it had less than 2k miles on it.
Lucky it didn't happen 5 mins later when i was blasting up the motor way at Warp factor 6 (K....rpms)
![Laughing](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_lol.gif)
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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine from 1600 years ago & still true!
K1 - 1989 - AKA Titan (unique K1/K1100RS hybrid by Andreas Esterhammer)
K1100RS - 1995. AKA Rudolf Von Schmurf (in a million bits)
K100RS - 1991 AKA Ronnie. Cafe racer project bike
K75RTP - 1994
K75C - 1991 AKA Jim Beam. In boxes.
K1100LT 1992 - AKA Big Red (gone)
K100LT - 1988 - AKA the Bullion brick. Should never have sold it.