Radial tyre repair ?

["Kit Scally" <kitscally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Recently installed a pair of (new) Avon Viper radials. Less than 2,000kms
wear to date.  Gutter-crawled at a set of lights the other day and picked up
a nail in the rear resulting in slow deflation. Due to fear of litigation,
most repair shops will now not plug/repair radials, so a new tyre was
required - at A$290 (U$145) !

Is there a "safe way" to repair radials for anything other than track-days ?

What's the current trend in the good old US of A ?
Has anyone successfully sued their local council for the (here at least)
terrible state of garbage in the gutters on most suburban roads ?
Should you just lie back and think of it as "doing your bit" for the world
tyre economy ?

Kit Scally
R1100s Mandarin, 110,000kms
Sydney

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