Topic: CB550 Rear tire came unseated

[exponent]

On the road with a passenger the other day when I feel a flat. Pull over into a gas station and try to refill the tire with air but it leaks out almost instantly. After taking the wheel off I can see that the tire was unseated from the rim, my guess is something is wrong with the tube or needs to be knocked back into place, where to start?

[pjlogue]

If you are running a tube and the bead came off the rim the tube is probably toast.  Tubes are pretty cheap so replacing it is a good idea.  You could easily have ripped the stem from the tube body.

-P.

[bryanj]

If it went flat the tube had a hole in it anyway, its not a car

[754]

Let me guess, did you tighten the nut on the valve stem against the rim ? If you did and tire started to slip you can't tell till it tears off.  If you double nut it 3/8 away from  the rim, and it slips you will see it tilt and can sometime fix it before tube tears..

[Gordon]

If it went flat the tube had a hole in it anyway, its not a car

Yeah, I think the cause and effect got a little mixed up. 

[Stev-o]

I had a couple flats on the same [nearly new] rear tire & tube.  Ended up buying a heavy duty tube and no issue since.

Moral of the story for me is dont buy the cheapest china crap tube!