tires and screws

[Air4Life]

Its amazing to me how such a thing makes it way in they way it does.  I don't believe this was standing at attention, or even at an angle awaiting my rear tire.

[Bob_Roller]

It is amazing what you can find sticking out of a tire .

A neighbor had a flat tire, I went over to put the spare on so she could get the tire repaired .

When I removed the tire, I found a spark plug had punctured the tire .

They couldn't repair the tire, it had to be replaced, $400 for a replacement tire !!!!

[k_enn]

Now that's what I call getting screwed.

[nhmaf]

I once had a slow leak in the rear metzler tire on my Yamaha Maxim 650 - this was back around 1991-1992. It had happened at I drove past a construction site.   It took the bike to the shop, and they replaced the tire.   I had pointed out the head of the sheet rock screw in the tire to the mechanic.  He still end up scratching up his hand because there were (3) other screws of different size embedded into the tire!

The nails, screws, etc. often are lying flat on the road, but the passing of the FRONT tire over them tends to stand them up or at least tip them upward at an angle - just in time to the rear tire to meet up with them.   This is why one more often gets these things in the rear tire and not the front.

[Air4Life]

Riding at slower speeds, like on a bicycle, you find all sorts of odd things on the shoulders of America's roadways.  Spark plugs is an unusual find  Bob.

Yes K_enn, I felt like I was taking it well considering I only had to walk the bike a half mile to my trailer to repair it.  It was six of one half dozen of the other as far as going back to retrieve it with the trailer.

the passing of the FRONT tire over them tends to stand them up or at least tip them upward at an angle - just in time to the rear tire to meet up with them.

That is believable.  It'd be interesting to pose this to those guys on tv who do that busted show.  Can't think of its name...  But maybe they could setup a stop motion camera and make it visible.

[montmil]

Myth Busters.  

[Air4Life]

Myth Busters.

Thanks Montmil.  After I hung up with you folks I did a google search and  had my stale memory refreshed.  Its scary how much I use Google.  Calling me Googlebrains would not be inappropriate in the least.