Avon high speed blow out

[GPMAZ]

A bit ashamed to say I had the same thoughts as Marcus.

That said, I'd guess it was a road hazard incident. I've had a few rear tire blow-outs over the years. While they really get your attention, they are generally pretty easy to handle. I was following a fellow riding two-up who had a front tire let go. That was quite a sight. He managed to keep the bike upright, but it went from shoulder to shoulder and he destroyed a pair of boots in the process. Turned out he had just replaced the front tire, and decided that the tube looked fine so he saved a few bucks and used the old one. **** near a fatal mistake.

Glad to hear you're ok.

 

[hinglby]

Great job keeping the rubber (aluminum wheel) side down!!! Welcome to the club!

 

[Rocket-UK]

Good work Doug...... 8)

You havent got a pic from behind, square on under the number plate?

You could have run over something, picked it up and thats what took out the wiring loom.....

 

[dragline708]

Doug ,

I believe I read some where , that the tire that goes flat or gets blown out .
Never apply brakes to that tire trying to stop , in can cause tire to come
off rim & wad up, causing massive loss of control .

Maybe give a heads up , on what you did .
Never had a flat or blow out before , so maybe
if you only used opposite brake , then it works

PS: Good job

Wayne

 

[Punkindave]

Good save!! Glad you're in one peice..
Question..... I wouldn't suspect overloading but there seems to be a lot of heat showing on the outside of the tread wear area.. Underinflated??

 

[Gothlander]

When I got a flat tire I was slowing down from 100mph and thought the frame had broken. It was snaking, the first thing you do is try to slow down fast but the faster you slow the worse it gets so trail brake lightly to pull it straight. Drop down through the gears and feather the clutch to stop abrupt changes to the bikes attitude. There seems to be a sweet zone to slow down, two fast and it's all over the place and two slow and you risk going of the road. So don't panic and find the sweet zone. :shock:

 

[Blastedbones]

Fu#k!! :shock: wow!! scary stuff! Good to hear you made it to a safe stop... Don't believe I will ever try an Avon after seeing that pic :shock: :shock:

 

[MountainMan]

Doug, since your partner was involved, it seems to me that controlling the flow of information with regards to potential causes as to why the thing blew may be imperative. It may even be a matter of life or death.

How to put this......Think along the lines of those questions where the lady asks her man, "Does this (pair of jeans, purse, motorcycle) make my butt look big?"

This is one of those questions that should never (I repeat, NEVER) be answered by the man. Only bad things can come of it. Very bad things.

So, depending on what the actual reason for the blowout ends up, you may have to control that information. For your own sake.

By the way - nice work on keeping all safe and sound. And the reason the tow truck guy was smiling - with the flat tire he could actually get his toes on the ground. I expect he also made engine noises.

 

[bigdoug]

thanks for all the good wishes guys and yes I'm a bit on the large side, in Lindas defense she is a great deal smaller than me lol. I didnt hit anything as far as I'm aware, The road was clear no potholes the surface was very good. Tyre was new and fully inflated when I left the house on the Friday afternoon.
I have a lot of motorbike riding experience and when it blew I had just given it a fair bit of throttle in top gear. I thought the drive shaft had let go and then felt the flapping tyre and guessed it was a blow out. I knew not to touch the brakes and all I did was pull in the clutch and let go the throttle. I let the bike drift to a halt at the side of the road but it took a bit of keeping in a straight line. As said above the slower it got the harder it kicked but it wasnt that bad.
I hope to get the bike away to the dealers tomorrow and we will see what Avon say about it.

 

[hinglby]

I know from experience that it don't take much to blow the tire and it's amazing what will penetrate the tread. Back in 1986 (long time ago) when the Honda Shadow was the bike to have, I was driving thru California an I5 at around 80mph. All of a sudden I heard this loud metal clunking sound that resembled a high speed jack hammer. The bike shook like crazy, swerved three lanes across and back. When I finally got the bike stopped I found a 1/2" open end/box end wrench stuck in my tire. The funny part was the it was the box end that went thru the tread. The tire was a Dunlap 491 elite gt w/ less than 1000 miles on it.

Six months later on the same stretch of road I picked up a chain, like the ones on semi mud flaps, it wrapped around my front tire and locked it up. I was doing 70mph when I heard the clatter and it felt like I applied the brakes. It locked up at about 35mph (not sure exactly due to the pucker factor) but I got the bike to the side of the road. I had to remove the front fender to drive it to the next town for some help.

Anyway.... My hat's off to you BigDoug.... Any time something like this happens and your around to talk about it it a great thing and a huge accomplishment!!! You da man!