Tire plugs??

[Randy B]

When I blew my front tire on the way to work last year (I hit a piece of loose roadbed concrete) in the middle of the lane on a left hand sweeper at 75 MPH I had no initial indication that the tire had gone completely flat. The bars got a little heavy, but nothing unmanageable and I was on my way to work, after all. When I got off the freeway that was when I knew there was an issue and I pulled into a gas station to assess the situation. The front tire was completely flat and there was a hole probably 1/8" in diameter in the main tread block....it wasn't gonna hold air for anything.
I called work and told them what happened and then I set out on getting the bike home...55 miles to the south. This was at a little after 6am when I stopped at the gas station and thankfully there is a group of really good people out here that helped me out and I was able to get the bike home for gas money.
This is how far I went on my completely flat tire (without knowing it and I don't recommend doing it yourself). The red dot to the south is where the contact took place and the red dot to the north is where the gas station is where I stopped.