Flats, running on empty?

I've now got two tires that have been run at speed or long distance flatter than an Amadrillo in a Texas Freeway during a heat wave. i've had rear de-rim and still get sick at stomach loose bowls spike sense even now. I don't get that stressed on riding down a flat and everyone else has been able too also. As long as tire stays mostly on rim it ridable but instant it warms and loosens up the next little fork correction for wind or road, SHEERTERRORHISIDECITY!

Half my genetics is Irish so can't help penny pinching innately besides actual budget closeness. When I put essentially new rear tire back on with new proper size hi quality tube I got a thump thump thump to whop whop whop sense up the rear shocks though seat and into the forks some. Alright after dark, hurting and cold on tire change plus gritting to see though drizzle to dodge deer, I felt like a cat held over a flushing toilet in suspense of what would slap my ass to brain senseless silly again.

I used LED head lamp to examine the bead indicator and seems good enough I couldn't see obvious error but did see one section bead didn't fit tight on rim till about fully inflated and no pop of bead setting but i don't hardly ever get that sound in cycle tires anyway. i deflated fully and bounced tire all around then topped off again before mounting. Every step hurt but the hurt of short cutting would be much greater. I have not used the rim lock and this 18" rim ain't got provision nor an 18" rim lock if 19" ain't a good fit.

How risky is ancient practice to fix the leak re-fit the tire then carry on with some back of the mind caution?

What would yoose guys do, especially if away from home?

I have always just carried a spare tube. It can fit either end in a pinch.

I also carry a patch kit. If the tire goes flat when parked and I can find the nail I have been known to lever the tire off without removing the wheel and patching a tube. I then replace the tube next time it's handy cause I don't like patches very much.

A big patch inside a tire will often take care of a cut long enough to get somewhere to find a new tire.

I carry a few CO2 cartridges. About 3 will fill a tire to full pressure from flat. Jim

As practical as your review is Jim, is don't answer the question of safety of a run on flat tire that could damage it to matter down the road. I'm not sure if my past re-rim rear event was because It'd been run in flat state just prior to its flat fix to ride off into a wOoHooDoggieDoo. Compared to past tire events Trixie's recent one was very mild so surprised to feel distinct tire distortion effects. The bike did sit on flat tire/side stand all day in the cold so hope that will just work out in time. Didn't have but 3 miles of tarmac in dark wet and hard aired just in case I'd pinched tube, then the rough stuff overwhelmed any mere tire case injury.

I guess its like all motorcycling for everyone, put ya butt in a saddle then takes ya chances with Fate as The Hunter.

I suppose if the tire were run for an extended time low it may have heat damage that would show up later.

If the tire was only run flat long enough to get to the side of the road I doubt there would be any major damage.

If in doubt I would replace it. It would be a lot cheaper than an ambulance ride. Jim

Ugh I don't do ambulance ride unless unconscious or bleeding out.
Guess who I thought of when realizing the slight hinging/weaving wasn't just the wind near 90 mph... Did have an interval of half luck half skill not to crash but had grace of room to get down to legal speed and back in 'control' to pick landing spot. I was still tingling from THE Gravaling just prior so reflexes warmed up and really wanted to make appointment on my own ride. Best of luck to all of us.

First of all let me say that the tire that is going thump whop doesn't sound good and I would not re-use it. If I were to use it to get home on, I would limp home slowly.

A disclaimer about the following. This was on my 2007 Triumph Bonneville which has safety bead rims. It is very hard to get the tire off of those kind of rims.

This happened when my Bonneville was very new. I was going for a ride for the day and had gotten to the other side of Houston, 30 miles from my home. I noticed the rear tire was flat so I pulled over at a gas station inspected the tire. I did not find anything on the outside. I put in some air and could hear it leaking out. It was not a slow leak, but not real fast either. So I decided to try to make it back home. My plan was to overfill the tire and go as far as I could and then pull into another gas station and repeat as needed. The air only lasted about 5 miles. The first 2 air fillups went ok (about 10 miles). Then I ran into a problem as so often happens in Houston the freeway (this was freeway all the way almost to my house) was a complete stopage of flow. So the tire went flat, and the traffic then started stop and going moving. So I just went with the traffic which was no problem going slowly. Then when the traffic finally got moving at normal speed again (around 65 mph) I slowly accelerated to stay up (did not see a gas station to pull into yet). I discovered it would run at that speed fairly well on the straights anyway, the curves had to be done carefully as it did not want to turn real well. I kept looking back at the tire but it seemed to be holding on ok so I just continued on. By then I was close to the real downtown part which does not have easy on/off gas station access, so I just kept on going. After passing the real downtown part and the tire still doing ok, I just kept on going all the way home. So the tire was run a good 20 miles at freeway speed flat. All that did not break the bead!
I thought about what to do with the tire. Lots of posts about throw it out its not safe. I looked over it carefully and it did not look to be damaged. It had gotten hot, but not too much more than normal. And since it was just about new and I am cheap I decided to re-use the tire. I got a new tube (there must have been a small nail that punctured it and left the tire) and put the tire back on the bike. I ran the tire till it was worn out, if I remember right around 6000 miles. I did watch it carfully at first but when it gave no trouble I just used it like normal after that.

LOL! and Alrighty mightydaj! Had me the on edge of my seat biting tongue on out come, especially on Houston Freeways with gaping tire wide diagonal seams. But we both found that at speed its not impossible nor impractical to ride home half an hour away as long as tire don't come off rim or bead wire come out to wrap up a show stopper. My current flat sure didn't get that Houston beating, hehehe just flashing back on your zings as the traffic train speeded up. Real likely if you'd gone down you'd been run over flat as an Armadillo. Current rear tire is $50 variety so will try to just use it up. I think- hope the thumping was just the cold set squash working out but didn't do much hwy time on return to find out and too rough to detect off hwy. If ya ain't had one come off the rim then running on empty ain't half the excitement it can be.