Oh ffffffffffffffflat! Post your "no more air" pics...

[AlpineGuerrilla]

How to deal with a nail in the tubeless tyre in eastern Europe, Macedonia to be exact:

I brought a tyre repair kit so we start to clean the "wound" and try to fix it. It works more or less but it's not good enough for the remaining trip, so we look out for a vulcaniser. Usually, there's an abundance of vulcanisers but now there is of course none to be found. After some asking and riding from here to there we find one.

Beaming with pride I announce to my buddy while pointing to the sign "look, that means Vulkaniser, good thing I can read cyrillic, right?". He crushes my ego by pointing out it's obvious because there are tons of tyres piled up outside.



The two guys running the garage don't mess around and start to take off the rear wheel 10 seconds after we arrived. They seem to have never worked on a bike and start fiddling around with the chain adjuster. My buddy intervenes in their enthusiasm and shows them the rear axle nut and dismounts it.



The procedure is well-coordinated and they fix the hole in no time.



They're fast learners and mount the rear wheel by themselves, only supervised by Andi.








It only took them around fifteen minutes and they charged 300 Macedonian Denar, which is 5 € or 6 US$.

The fix was really good, although the Daytona has quite some power, it never became a problem and we were able to ride the rest of the trip, about 5000km or 3000 miles, trouble-free.

[WayneJ]

Installed tube...


...rode 100 miles back to camp.