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Gordon T
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PostPosted: 20:51 - 02 Oct 2007    Post subject: Puncture advice needed................ Reply with quote

Ive been wondering whats the best way to deal with a puncture when away from home.
Would it be best to fill the tyre up with a pressurised foam in a can type repair or go for a tubeless repair kit. When doing my cycling trips my tyres are filled with Slime puncture sealant fluid. When I get a puncture a small blob of lime green fluid shows through the hole and seals it, showing it has plugged the leaks. At the end of a long ride I may have as many as three showing so was wondering if bike tyres can be filled with the same type of stuff.
If they could, it may be ideal to get mine filled up before I commence a long ride. Obviously having a tubeless repair kit is going to be handy but I cant see myself beside a far distant field ,at night in the rain trying to get the wet tyre to repair. Its also something less to carry as well if there was another soloution......Gordon.
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Itchy
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PostPosted: 21:27 - 02 Oct 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get a tyre repair kit £20 and work virtually permantly, (one with C02 cans is good). Its the size of erm a DVD box but thicker.

I got a nail in me CBR rear 2 weeks ago, I filled it with Motul tyre sealant, thing is you are supposed to ride it to heat it up to make it dry inside the tyre, it worked though I had it mushroomed within 6 hours.

my Tyre man hates slime he said something along the lines of if you put slime it it, its harder to mushroom back, cus slime is harder to remove off the insides.
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