Jake,
Are you putting a lot of lube on the tire when you change a tube?
That's the only reason I can think of for your tire to spin on the
rim and take the tube with it. You might try leaving off the nut on
the valve stem next time. At least that way if the tire spins it
won't rip out the valve stem.
What kind of tires are you running? What air pressure?
__Arden
P.S. Your "Jacostarica" signature reminds me of a few days my wife
and I spent in Jaco Beach late in the last century. Nice place, but
it was the only place in Costa Rica that we had anything stolen--our
dirty clothes disappeared from our car truck overnight while we
sweated beneath the fan in our room at Alice's Cabinas y Restaurant.
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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Jacobus De Bruyn
wrote:
>
> Friends,
> As I drove home from my swimming hole and campesino
> friends today, a little while ago, the rear tire went
> flat. I was just in a bend in the road where they mug
> people, so I backtracked to where a few houses are,
> even if the dogs barked furiously.
>
> Note well, just as my front tire on saturday morning,
> no foreign objects in my tire, the valve in the tube
> was ripped out.
> I came to the conclusion that the tire and the tube
> where turning independently of each other, and that
> was the whining, wirring noise I had been worried
> about for the last few weeks.
> Now, I have been driving motorcycles for the last 15
> years, every day, all the time, no car. But I have
> never had this kind of problem. On the XR200, an old
> second hand bike I had for a while, there was a tire
> securing clamp device inside the tire. On this thing,
> one is not supposed to need it.
> What the hell is going on???
>
> I may add a bit of humor and sarcasm, but this is no
> screen play, or posturing, this is hard work in the
> noon sunshine, glad I still could clean my throat and
> spirit with a few mouthfulls of wodka, how else is a
> fellow supposed to survive?
>
> Changing the tube was routine, the hard part this time
> was the heavy duty tube from Fred, an 18, not so easy
> to accomodate inside. The C-clamp made putting the
> rim over pretty easy. I consider myself a stupid
> genius.
>
> I apologize to the reverend and to all other decent
> people for the use of the term "hell" and for
> promoting the consumption of wodka, but..what is a man
> to do? Just try to survive and make sense of this
> crazy world. Anyhow, I made it back in time for
> work, which is now. Jacostarica.
>
>
>
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