those rare tire punctures (trying again)

[j3gq_imp]

With your help I 'd like to get a better feeling for how often a tire gets really punctured. You guessed it, without a little poll we won't get a clear picture. So here is how it goes ...

Please take your total mileage on all motorcycles you ever owned, a ruff guess is okay. Divide that number by ten-thousand (10,000). Round it up to the next digit. The resulting number will hopefully be somewhere between 1 and 50.

Now count the number of times you had a flat tire and multiply by 10. Finally divide that last number (flats x 10) by the earlier number (how many times you drove 10000 miles). That's the number you vote for. The final vote will show the average number of flats per 100,000 miles.

Please help, it takes barely half a minute. If your number doesn't fit any of the options, sth went wrong and you have to start over.

Example: you had only 1 flat (= 1*10=10), rode a total of 235,000 miles (=235000/10000 ~ 23), you divide 10 by 23, your number is about 0.5, you vote for "under 1".

[Lord Popgun]

I voted under 1. I only ever had one flat. Caused by a barn roofing nail.

[dave]

3.6. This is not counting any of my dirt bikes. Back in the 70's I got three flats one year due to rust inside the rear rim before I figured out the root cause. In the past 113,000 miles on my VFR800 I got three flats. No flats in 26,000 miles on my CB1100.

[Tev62]

Too much hard work for my little brain j3gq, too many years raising a family and not riding and too many broken brain cells to remember detail by now. But I can tell you I had one puncture when I was 18 and had to trudge over a farmers field who luckily had dirt bikes and let me use his gear to fix the inner tube. Fast forward four decades and I got three punctures in one summer, all in 2019.

[the Ferret]

lol I'm not doing the math ... I hate math.

Ridden over 800,000 miles. Have had maybe 1/2 dozen flats in 65 years. None of which have left me stranded on the side of the road that I recall. I do carry a patch kit with me on trips, but not local rides, where my wife or son can bring me my kit if necessary, or as a last resort I can call AAA for a tow (flat bed trailer) which is good for up to 150 miles I think.

Now that I said that, I am going to carry my kit on my next few local rides lol

So per 100,000 miles, without doing the math, it would be less than 1.

[max]

One ( dealer's fault by pinching inner tyre ) 20 km from home needing trailer transport.
Other than that never in about 140.000 km over 50 years, but i do carry 3 ways to repair a tyre, small screws, green slime and brown strips with co2 cartridges.
Just used one cartridge to help inflate a new tyre and set the bead on a rear tyre with a foot pump, it worked.

[GoldOxide_imp]

All my flats happened in the 1980s.

[The A-man]

Only one that I can think of, since 1972. That one punctured both tread area, which could have been repaired, but it also punctured the sidewall, which could not have been repaired. A repair kit wouldn't have helped me.

[Delphisa]

Ouch, a little bit complex question, I had to set an Excel sheet for the requested calculations...
Result is 1.4 : about 140000 miles (6 bikes, 50 years), two flats I remember (but maybe there were some others in the '70s). In both cases I discovered the flat when taking the bike out the garage, so I was not too worried. But on the CB1100 I have always, under the seat, a tubeless tire repair kit, with a CO2 bottle, even if I never used it.

[Lord Popgun]

I’m still trying to figure out when the trains meet if one leaves Chicago going to NY and one leaves NY going to Chicago..