emergency procedures when handling a motorcycle tyre burst at high speed
In the old days, tires would often 'blow out', deflate suddenly. Today that's very rare, usually a tire deflates slowly through a leak and you have more time to feel it happening and to react. I've only had a flat tire once on a bike and that was years ago. The rear tire went out, at about 50 mph. The back of the bike began moving out to one side. I steered into it and the back went in the other direction. I zig-zagged to a stop. What was happening was that the tire was on one side of the rim, and then the other side. I was just a beginner at the time, and it was very frightening but I really had no trouble keeping the bike upright while I slowed it down. A front tire would probably be much more frightening.
Over the years i have blown a rear tire and cut down a front tire on who knows what and broken a rear axle on a old norton The procedure i used in all three was to not hit the brakes untill it was down slow enough i could catch it and keep it upright I pulled the clutch and let it slow down on it's own and got off the road as fast as possible Ya don't want to do this on pavement if something goes wrong road rash hurts.
In the old days, tires would often 'blow out', deflate suddenly. Today that's very rare, usually a tire deflates slowly through a leak and you have more time to feel it happening and to react. I've only had a flat tire once on a bike and that was years ago. The rear tire went out, at about 50 mph. The back of the bike began moving out to one side. I steered into it and the back went in the other direction. I zig-zagged to a stop. What was happening was that the tire was on one side of the rim, and then the other side. I was just a beginner at the time, and it was very frightening but I really had no trouble keeping the bike upright while I slowed it down. A front tire would probably be much more frightening.
Stay calm, close the throttle, apply brakes to the good tire, and get off the road.
Over the years i have blown a rear tire and cut down a front tire on who knows what and broken a rear axle on a old norton The procedure i used in all three was to not hit the brakes untill it was down slow enough i could catch it and keep it upright I pulled the clutch and let it slow down on it's own and got off the road as fast as possible Ya don't want to do this on pavement if something goes wrong road rash hurts.
Stay calm, close the throttle, apply brakes to the good tire, and get off the road.
