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Hi all,
Recently while riding my yamaha gladiator i faced a tire puncture. It was a sudden fattening of tire & i was lucky that i was in the traffic riding at speeds of 10-20kmph due to which the situation was not worse & nothing dangerous had happened. I had to replace the tube & the reason for the puncture was a nail on the roads. Now after changing the tube i think "what if the tire had puncture at high speeds??". If the puncture had took place at a high speeds then it could have been fatal since the bike would loose its stability.
So to prevent such incidents of sudden puncture i have came up with two solutions.
1. Change the tire to a tubeless one. Which i feel is a bit costly & moreover my tires have run only 8k kms. How much do the new tubeless tires cost?? My tire size is 2.75 for front & 3.00 for rear.
2. Now the other relatively cheaper solution is change the tube to a tuff up tube used in the honda shine. It should be a relatively cheaper solution. How much does the new tuff up tube cost?? I didnt included the unicorn since honda dint mentioned its rear tire size on the web. Now the problem with the tube is the rear tyre size of shine is 2.75 while that of gladiator is 3.00.
So can a smaller tube be fitted into a bigger tire??
Please give me the suggestion on which option to consider & what to do then.
Recently while riding my yamaha gladiator i faced a tire puncture. It was a sudden fattening of tire & i was lucky that i was in the traffic riding at speeds of 10-20kmph due to which the situation was not worse & nothing dangerous had happened. I had to replace the tube & the reason for the puncture was a nail on the roads. Now after changing the tube i think "what if the tire had puncture at high speeds??". If the puncture had took place at a high speeds then it could have been fatal since the bike would loose its stability.
So to prevent such incidents of sudden puncture i have came up with two solutions.
1. Change the tire to a tubeless one. Which i feel is a bit costly & moreover my tires have run only 8k kms. How much do the new tubeless tires cost?? My tire size is 2.75 for front & 3.00 for rear.
2. Now the other relatively cheaper solution is change the tube to a tuff up tube used in the honda shine. It should be a relatively cheaper solution. How much does the new tuff up tube cost?? I didnt included the unicorn since honda dint mentioned its rear tire size on the web. Now the problem with the tube is the rear tyre size of shine is 2.75 while that of gladiator is 3.00.
So can a smaller tube be fitted into a bigger tire??
Please give me the suggestion on which option to consider & what to do then.
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