How many tire plugs is too many?

[Fred]

talking about flats... how exactly do you mend a flat tire in the wild? I know how fix a flat bicycle tire, and possibly without levers(if the tire is soft enough). In a pinch, I can fix a bicycle flat with just a knife and a patch kit.. but a motorcycle tire is different. Do you have to take the wheel off? Patching an inner tube, you have to actually take out the tube, find the puncture and sand it down, then apply the patch.

Again, how do you do that in the wild? Anyone has stories to share?

I had a puncture a few weeks ago on my rear tire outside Shanghai, flagged down a police car which sent a repairman to help me on the side of the road. His procedure was quite simple but really effective :
- he just got the tube out of the tire (without removing the rear wheel), found the hole by inflating the tube a little bit and checking where it was leaking
- cleaned around the 2 holes (!) with the brush, put a patch/seal on each of them with the special glue (he was very careful to stick them well)
- checked the inside of the tire with his hand and found the nail...
- put back the tube in the tire and inflate it as much as he could

And off I went, for 10 RMB and less than 10 mn for the repair job ! I just went to the bike shop after to have it inflated at the correct pressure, as the repair man on the road only had a bicycle hand pump.
Since this flat, I rode 1,500 km on it without any concern.

Hope this helps...