Posted By TwoWheelsTebo on February 2, 2010

I learned an important lesson some time back.  I was on my way back from a great ride up to Mary’s Peak, and was craving an ice cream cone.  There is a little “hole in the wall” cafe in Albany, OR called King Kone.  They’ve got these huge ice cream cones for only a buck 50, and I was craving one.  But, it would have been out of my way by about 5 miles, and I figured my middle really didn’t need the ice cream as much as my taste buds were trying to tell me it did.  So, I decided to just take the shorter route home and forget the ice cream.

Well, taking the short route home, put me on a normally good motorcycle road.  The problem was that this time, there was a 4″ screw on the road, and it some how found it’s way into my tire. Needless to say, I did not get very far with a 4″ screw sticking out of my tire!  I ended up calling my brother in law, who brought his truck and trailer, and we loaded my crippled wing onto it and took it home.

The tread on the tire was still good, and I didn’t have a lot of extra money to be buying a new tire right then, so I started looking at tire plug kits.  I went t the auto parts store and bought their best one and installed the plug.  I decided to just do some short test rides to see if it was going to hold.  As it turns out, it was a good thing I did.  Because the standard plug only lasted for about 15 miles, and fortunately came out just as I was pulling back into the driveway.

So, I started a new quest to find a tire plugger that would work on a motorcycle tire…and stay in longer than 15 miles.  That’s when I found the Stop & Go Motorcycle Tire Plugger kit.  It has a unique mushroom shaped plug that I could see instantly from the pictures that this had to be the best tire plug on the market!  It’s a no brainer that if you have a mushroom head on the inside of your tire, and the stem plugging the hole, there is no way that plug is coming out, and it would provide a double seal for the hole.  So, I bought one.  It was supper easy to install with the included tools.  I have been running with this plug in my tire since September and have put on thousands of miles since then.  The plug is still in place, and I have not had to ad any air since I installed the plug!  Thanks to the Stop & Go tire plug, I will get my full normal life out of this tire, saving me a nice chunk of change. 

Well, every story has a moral…this one happens to have two.

1. If you are out riding and craving ice cream, it’s more expensive to opt not to get it and get a screw in your tire than it is to take the long route and go get the ice cream.  So, just go get the ice cream!

2. Unless you have a certain craving for being stranded out in the middle of no where on your bike, get a Stop & Go Motorcycle Tire Plugger Kit! Personally, I won’t ride with out it again.

I have been so impressed with the Stop & Go Tire Plugger Kit, that I decided to call them and ask if they would consider donating some of their products as prizes for this year’s drawing.  As you can see from the pizes page on this site, they agreed!  So now you have an opportunity to win your very own Stop & Go Tire Plugger!

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