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A PAIN IN THE BACK TYRE Yesterday morning which was Saturday 13th, i was up around 9 as had no work and decided to have a short sleep in. I had planned to travel to Taupo to buy some birthday pressies to take with me to Hokitika this Easter break, but first i had to get my back tyre replaced as the tred was too low, a tyre on my motorcycle only lasts me 3 to 4 months depending. Rand my mechanic to tell him i would pick up the tyre from Twin City Suzuki and will be around right after that. The tyre was a tubeless radial and was somewhat on the tight side when Ian was fitting it, I stopped off at the car wash as well and gave my bike a good cleaning, fueled up and began up the Highway to Taupo. It is a 164km journey to Taupo and did it in just over an hour, normally i would do it in about 40 minutes but since i had a new back tyre fitted i decided to take things easy.  , yes i know,,,,us bikers do tend to push it to the limit a little,,ok a lot, ,,.Well i arrived in taupo ans all was very chilly from the southerly blast that came up from the arctic Friday night and made it feel like winter. I was about an hour shopping and also did a few other things as well then went back to my bike only to find my back tyre had gone flat,,  ,,,,oh noo noo noo noo not here, not in a town where i do not know anybody and it was 4pm in the afternoon and all the motorcycle shops were shut and i did not have my mechanics number and my AA membership had elapsed and oh oh oh big doo doo ,.Best idea when faced with this situation on a motorcycle but only if the garage is only a few short paces away is to drive it slowly in 1st gear and stand up on the foot pegs so your weight is facing forward, it wont damage the beeding in the tyre unless you go for a long distance. I arrived at the garage and pumped it up then did a spit check on the valve,,hmm,,nothing,,  ,,will wait for 20 minutes and then check the pressure, went inside and bought a wild bean coffee and waited, went back and tested it,,,lost 5psi. pumped it back up to 35psi then just then it was like the Holy spirit just said to me,,,get a small compressor,,,i was just going to get some tyre weld and do it that way,,i looked at some in the shop there and nearly bought some but then the voice just said again,,yes but a compressor as well,Naaaa,, no way,,a compressor will cost me too much ans today has already cost me a lot of money,,,Do you want to get home,,,well year,,then go to Repco and get a 12 volt compressor, you have 30 minutes before they close so move smartly,,,ok Lord. I drove a short 3 blocks to Repco and they were open and believe it or not they were doing a huge promotion on tyre repair products,,,tyre weld was half price and 12 volt compressores were also reduced from $140 down to just $40 dollars,    ,,, and i just stood there and just gawked at it,,and thought ,,Lord you are so amazing. And the more amazing thing is that it is small enough to carry on my bike and it even has attachments for blowing up my air bed for when i am camping,,, ,i bought the compressor and the tyre weld and extra valve cores, tested the tyre pressure and it was still 35psi so i raised it to 4o then headed for home. Would you believe the tyre never went down once and is still hard.  .Sometimes when you replace a new tyre the valve core may not sit back in evenly and may let air back out, you will never really hear it as it happens slowly and so cannot detect it,, the valve cap will slow it down and that is why i got to complete the trip all the way to Taupo, or you may get a speck of dust will sit in there and create a degree of bother,,so watch for that ladies, 
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