Any tyre insurance?

I use the C02 on my Husky 610 and been very happy with it and good likespan
Definately more gnarly than the E09 I use on the HP2 (you get two versions - Dakar is stronger with extra sidewall ply). That said - what was the contingency if one of you got a large sidewall cut?
What is tyre insurance? Tyre is a consumption material like oil filter. Can you get oil filter insurance? Quite frankly if one has a mindset to buy tyre insurance, they shoiuld not go for trip like this. On this kind of trip the whole bike is consumption material.
Contingency is very simple and I already mentioned it here - spare tubes (regardless whether you have extra rubber, pure air or foam in your tyre) + lotsa patches (something I forgot to instruct the other two to bring and it has almost bitten us in the ass later on). Nothing beats good old tube out in the sticks.
Edit: and just to put things into perspective, Robbies pass is about 5 - 7 km long, so not such a big load on the tyres (even though it took us about 3 hour to cross). I think faster riding on rocks like you have seen on those more open sections kills tyres faster. That said C02 worked like a charm - Bertie had new ones and I believe at the end of our 2000 or so km long loop he had probably over half of the thread left and mine - which I already used in LEsotho prior to this trip - still had plenty left.
Justin's E09 wasn't new and wasn't Dakar version (they do not import it in the approximately right size for 500). So unsurprisingly it was a toast at the end of this trip.
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Sorry the tyre insurance question was a joke
http://www.wilddog.za.net/forum/index.php?topic=222968.0My question regarding tyre contingency related directly to the possibility of a large gaping cut in the sidewall - would you try and patch inside, hold closed with cable ties or go for the sunhat and takkies as JBI suggests
