First flat tire

[05nomader]

I had my first street bike flat tire on my 05 nomad yesterday coming back from Laughlin Nevada to Saint George Utah as I picked up a screw in my back tire a Vredestein Comtrac 175/75R 16 car tire. I first noticed it handling strange while passing a 1 ton trunk pulling a trailer, I was passing pushing about 85 mph when the bike started to wobble pretty bad so I eased off the throttle and eased on the front brake slowing down to 70 mph and everything came back to normal, my wife was ridding her bike behind me so when we stopped in Mesquite Nevada for lunch I asked her if she seen the bike wobble, she didn’t but was wondering why I slowed down. Now this is where my stupidity comes in, instead of checking the bike over while we were in a town I told my wife lets just ride the interstate back home about 40 miles and I will keep it under 75 mph as it handles ok up to around 80 mph, well we made it home without any problems and the bike handled fine, I consider myself very lucky. I went out in the garage this morning and checked the back tire pressure and it had zero psi. Now I know some of you are going to criticize me but I took the tire off and had it plugged and booted and put it back on, keep in mind this is a car tire and I have no problems putting a boot in a car tire it is very acceptable.