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My plug kit and compressor saved the day after the TPMS alerted me early enough while riding windy/twisty roads way out of cell range in our local NC mountains on a Sunday morning where help would have been difficult to raise and almost certainlya long time away. I wouldn't leave home without the plug/compressor. However, not all leaks are repairable.
Same here, two different plug kits, 4 co2 cartridges adjunct to a cycle pump expedition compressor.
I thought I had two sizes of plugs but the large ones were nowhere to be found when needed. That of course is user error and I paid the price. I usually learn the hard way unfortunately. My first flat while actually learning how to use the repair kit I wasted a CO2 cartridge and couldn't quite get enough pressure for safe transit home but was rescued by another rider with a spare. That taught me to carry a pump as well. But if you forget to pack it what good is it? Duh.
I only carry the co2 cartridges for the off chance the compressor takes a dump when I need it. I started carrying the cartridges after I watched a rider trying to air up his tires in the morning and his pump took a permanent nap at that moment. He had to borrow my pump. That got me thinking, what if my pump craps out, forethought can save a lot of potentials.
I even test the 12v pumps from time to time. Years (hopefully) of sitting and bouncing around can lead to a surprise.
I have found that I don’t have any factory installed outlets, cigarette or other wise, that will support running a 12 volt pump. It may start off okay but as it reaches tire inflation pressures, the factory fused outlet gives up.I carry a 12-volt pump in the car.... Then one day I learned that the cigarette outlet was quite dead.
So, I clipped off the pump's plug, soldered on about 15 feet of heavy black-and-red twisted pair, and added a pair of small hippo clips and a fuse. Now I can reach any car's battery directly!
In all my motorcycle travelling, I have had only one flat. Although I carry a compressor and plugs, the one and only flat I had was not a simple puncture but a gash that the plugging snakes could not plug; hence the need for a tow and a replacement tire.
One sits in the right side cubby and powers the mp3 or phone while riding. Just recently went with the phone holder on the bars as a backup to the garmin gps. Though the phone normally sits in the tank bag while motoring, the gps would NOT find our hotel on the beach in Mexico. My brother uses his phone all the time in it's cradle for streaming music.
