here's one for ya:
buddy and i are riding fire-type roads in nicaragua and we swap bikes for a bit. i get to ride his SAWEET WR450F while he get's on my trusty DR650. 15 minutes later, he's history. i circle back to find him trying to inflate the rear tire with a mini bike pump he carries in his waist pack. of course, he forgot that i carry a small compressor. we are only two miles from a tire spot (vulcanizador) so we pump it up and head off. 100 meters later he stops. tire is dead flat. pump it up again and off we go. this time we don't bother stopping but go slow. the D606's are hard as nails anyway.
get to the tire spot and they have the tube out and in a water bath in minutes. 21 punctures. yes. 21! seems as though some little piece of metal got into the tire and slaughtered the tube.
needless to say we didn't fix it.
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'07 DL1000 '08 DR650
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