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Originally Posted by The Awesome

Have you ever gotten a flat while riding? I have, and it's not a lot of fun when you tip it into a corner and the rear tire tries to pass the front. I don't know about you, but I won't chance hitting the deck over a tire that won't hold air, especially if I know ahead of time that the tire is suspect. We can file that one under "stupid hurts".

Um no, I've been riding for almost 30 years but I've never had a flat tire..... I can tell when my tire is 5 lbs low, well before this flat induced accident you describe. In my experience, sport bike tires tend to go flat once parked, I have theories but that has been my experience. I don't care if he throws his money away... His tire never lost air in the first place so your argument is actually quite stupid.

Maybe you should throw a tire away every time it gets dirty, runs over a rock, etc as well... who knows? Why take the chance? I mean now you've really gone off the deep end in tire paranoia. The tire was never punctured. Have you never run a tire down to the threads? Did it suddenly explode as soon as you touched them with the road?

Seriously guys, I've had people on this board caution me against tire explosions if the pressure is 2 lbs higher than they "think" it should be. Now if the outer tread is at all damaged, you'll run the risk of a catastrophic failure!!! I am SO glad that tires aren't as fragile as some of you believe! Get on YouTube and watch a video on how tires are made. You may learn something and may even be able to put aside some of your fears... Besides, "Mr Awesome", he's not scrapping his pegs through the Gap on a super sport machine, he's riding his Ninja 650 back and forth to work. Yeesh!