There is a tube in the tire and you can't just plug it like a normal car tire. You can either take the wheel off and patch the tube, or just spend not a whole lot and get a new tube... $5 - $10 bucks, and you'd be alot safer. If you.ve never done it before, you should have a local shop or the dealer do it for you and have them explain how they did it. The last thing you want is a pinched or a wrinkled tube, then you would be back in the same boat.

There is also a BIG rubber band around the rim inside to protect the tube from being poked by the end of the spokes. So basically what you did was plugged the hole in the tire, and not the tube. I hope this helped you out. Good Luck.

 

hu?? i thought my tire was tubeless since it says so on the outside...hmmm.. maybe the previous owner decided to put a tube in it...i'll swing by the shop tomorrow.. thanx!

 

Put it on a Mag wheel, you could run it tubeless...........

 

hahaha! that was silly of me thinking i could plug it like a regular car tire... excuse my ignorance.

 

Would you be able to identify a tubeless by looking at the valve stem?