Tyre slime Really works ! To my surprise

[BADGER.BRAD]

In the autumn I changed my MTB's tyres to some more suitable for the thick mud I was expecting at the same time I dosed both tubes with some cheap tyre slime. .This morning I changed them back to those more suitable for hard packed mud and found I had had 3 rear punctures and 4 front , As a lot of my friends had had multiple punctures I thought I had been really lucky ( having no faith in the tyre slime) but boy was I wrong. I'm now going to dose my single speed and my commuter bike.

As an and on to this I fixed all the punctures in the normal way before fitting the new tyres ,is this right ?

 

[Norm]

I also like Slime and use it in the Tricross, the shopping hack and the boy's school commuter, none of which have punctured since it was fitted and they've done over 1k of shared path, off road cycle track and town centre miles between them.

Whilst it is, undoubtedly, heavy and in the wrong place for heaviness too, I think it also gives a cushioning effect to take some buzz and impact out of the ride. If the bikes aren't used for racing or time trials, I'd rather add a few seconds or a few degrees more effort to the time of every journey than 15 minutes to the time of one journey in 20.

As an and on to this I fixed all the punctures in the normal way before fitting the new tyres ,is this right?

If you can get the patch to stick, then this is what I'd do too, although that is no guarantee that it is "right".

 

[BADGER.BRAD]

Thinking about it the reason I used the slime was I brought my lad a descent MTB for Christmas and on his first day out 5 miles from home I had to go and rescue him then a few days after he turned up with a flat and again and again, he's a bit/a lot extreme in his riding and tends to use the local glass strewn alleyways as short cuts but thinking about it he has had no flats since. Like you now I know it works I'd rather my bikes be a little heavier if it makes them more reliable.

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

I have had two p*nctur£s since 2008,one was due to a brake block rubbing and the second was when I hit a pothole on the fixie when I was drafting a bus.10000+ commuting miles.

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I use these.