Picked up my first nail on the C14

[Sea Level]

Sweet! May be unusual only because most people dont have the balls to leave a nail in. Kudos to you. Do ya play the lottery?

I take it you're being sarcastic, but to my mind the risk I was taking was a flat, not a blowout. The worse that would happen, in all likelihood, is that the rubber around the site of the nail would fail and air would leak out, maybe quickly. But not catastrophically.

[Rhino]

Yep, I'm one of them.  I ride way to agressive to run on a plugged tire.

So what happens when you pick up a nail? You get a flat. What happens when a plug fails? You get a flat. In fact from my experience when a plug fails you get a slow leak. Slower then the original nail leak.

BTW: I have had a blow out on the front tire of my Valkyrie at 80 mph. I suppose if it had happened at the worst possible moment leaned over in a curve it could have been fatal. But as it was I only realized it as I was changing lanes and I had to push harder on the bars than usual. I pulled over and found the valve stem gone.