This is why people are fleeing the Northeast

[taxfree4]

Keep an eye out on ebay, you can buy a brand new wheel with a brand new tire mounted up for 275.00. I've done it twice in the last 12 months.

You hit that many nails? I will check that out, I have to say this is the first blowout in over 40 years of riding I've ever had so I consider myself lucky. Everything happens so fast yet you're in slow motion in a situation like this, that's the way it happened for me anyway.

[taxfree4]

Wow looks like a pretty good size nail got ya-and ouch 389.00 for a rear tire.I assume they washed and waxed the rim too

I never let them wash the bike, I don't know what cheap soap, filthy sponges and towels they'll use on it. I take it home and give it a proper wash and wax.

[hiflyer]

You hit that many nails?.

I ruined a tire, so I bought one. Wore that one out, bought another. So now I have a new OEM wheel and tire ready to go, a wheel with a car tire mounted, plus the one on the bike. At some point I may sell one of the wheels.

[taxfree4]

I ruined a tire, so I bought one. Wore that one out, bought another. So now I have a new OEM wheel and tire ready to go, a wheel with a car tire mounted, plus the one on the bike. At some point I may sell one of the wheels.

That was just my weak attempt at being funny. Anyway, I checked ebay and nothing but I'll pop back now and then. It's a good idea to have a tire ready to roll.

[shooter]

I have a rear wheel with a CT on it and a front with an OEM Stone on it for spares. Minimizes downtime.

[taxfree4]

I have a rear wheel with a CT on it and a front with an OEM Stone on it for spares. Minimizes downtime.

As the Boy Scouts say, "Estote Parati".

[choptop]

Let me tell you something Doug. Number one I don't carry hi-cap magazines. These days its been a XDs in 45ACP. The mags only hold 5. So with 2 mags and the gun with mag I'm still only carrying 16. That's not a lot. And I don't like people putting limits on me. Its not like the movies where you shoot them one time and they fall over dead. You might have to shoot a crack head 3 or 4 times to keep him down. To each their own.

Xds in 45 is also my choice for conceal/carry, have the campact in .45 also.

[Davidk]

If you can't kill them in 1 clip worth of bullets or get out of there by the end of one,you may have a problem.

Isn't the time that you "may have a problem" the best time to have extra magazines?

FYI: Semi-auto pistols use magazines, not clips. And, you don't load bullets into clips or magazines, you load cartridges into them. Bullets are the projectiles.