Track days and punctures

[Slipperywang]

I have another track day booked in for August. I also just got a puncture on my pretty much new rear tyre, its a good puncture to be honest just a small hole right in the centre of the tyre. I have plugged it using the oxford tubeless kit (the one with the stick brown sticks that go in the tyre), reckon this will be okay for a track day ?

The tyre I had on before got a very large puncture and i used the same method to fix and rode the bike for 3+months of hard road riding and it was ok.

[dern]

No one but you can work out what level of risk you're happy with and your choices are as it is with the external repair, internal repair or new tyre. My choice would be that I'd be happier if it had a internal repair applied but that's just me.

[Rubin215]

Your call, but I wouldn't.

They are a temporary repair only, and a track really isn't the place you want it failing.

[bluezedd]

Absolutely not. Get a proper repair from the inside of the tyre if you're going to do a track day. I've had those brown stick ones fail in the past at normal town speeds.

The best "temporary" plug I've used is the "stop and go" kit. I fit them and use them permanently. I wouldn't do a track day with anything but a proper interal repair though.

[Biker's Nemesis]

bluezedd said:

Absolutely not. Get a proper repair from the inside of the tyre if you're going to do a track day. I've had those brown stick ones fail in the past at normal town speeds.

The best "temporary" plug I've used is the "stop and go" kit. I fit them and use them permanently. I wouldn't do a track day with anything but a proper interal repair though.

What he said. Maybe it will be ok maybe it won't.

I have used a properly repaired Supercorsa on track many years ago on my 600.

[Cylon2007]

Would I continue to use a 'temporary' repair on the road, yes I would and have. For track NO way, minimum as previously said needs to be a proper vulcanised internal patch. Your call but definitely a NO from me.

[Charliecloud]

Cylon2007 said:

Would I continue to use a 'temporary' repair on the road, yes I would and have. For track NO way, minimum as previously said needs to be a proper vulcanised internal patch. Your call but definitely a NO from me.

And another NO from me. Compare how much a proper repair is against the damage a rear tyre letting go will be, let alone any damage you might do to yourself or others.

[graeme4130]

I've seen a few of those come off at Silverstone over the last couple of years
If you take the bike to a tyre fitter, they'll put an inside plug in, which would be fine for anything but the fastest rider generating some serious heat