I'll toss in my experience with patched tires, for what it's worth.
I ran over a nail or something a few years ago and punctured my Michelin Macadam 90X rear tire that only had about 2000 miles on it. The leak was slow enough that I was able to ride a few miles without it going completely flat. I took the wheel off and took it to the local Ducati dealer to get patched. I think it was like $40 or something to get the repair done.
Once it was patched, I rode the bike over the same road, ran over some unseen object that stuck in the tire, tore a chunk out of the rear hugger, and made the tire go flat within a mile. That particular road was so narrow where the tire went flat that I had to ride nearly a mile on the flat tire to get to a point wide enough that I could park the bike. By then the tire was totally wasted, so I used that as a hint that I should just replace a punctured tire rather than patching it.
After parking the bike, I bummed a ride with the next motorcyclist to come through there. Went home and grabbed my pickup truck to retreive the wounded Monster, and promptly ran out of gas on the freeway. I'll blame my kids for never putting gas in any of my vehicles when they drive them. Eventually my wife came with more gas, I fetched the Monster, ordered a new tire, and all was well.