Slime puncture preventer - any others?

Hi all,

Anyone know how to install slime? And are there any alternatives?

Found it

[Dave20046]

ultraseal is one alternative

Wasn't aware that you could use this on motorbikes! I've got it in my MTB tyres. You live and learn!

[garynortheast]

I've used it in my motorbike tyres for years, particularly when I've been heading off on long foreign trips.

[Red Herring]

Only thing is don't become complacent and stop checking your tyres. These sealers may stop it leaking air but if there is a screw/nail in the tyre and you carry on riding on it eventually it may cause the carcase to fail and that isn't nice on a bike. At work we check the tyres at the start of every shift and if one is even a couple of PSI down the jack comes out and the tyre gets looked over. Prevention is most definitely better than trying to recover the consequence....

[jambo]

Personally I don't rate this stuff. A repair kit using sticky string is effective, and you don't have a pint of liquid slopping round in your tyres. Tyre fitters hate it, and I've heard of it going solid causing ballancing issues (not little ones either).

You pays your money, you makes your choice, but this isn't my go-to puncture solution.

Jambo

Originally Posted by jambo

Personally I don't rate this stuff. A repair kit using sticky string is effective, and you don't have a pint of liquid slopping round in your tyres. Tyre fitters hate it, and I've heard of it going solid causing ballancing issues (not little ones either).

You pays your money, you makes your choice, but this isn't my go-to puncture solution.

Jambo

ive used puncture safe for several years,only ever put it in when i have had a puncture which is every time i put a new tyre on the back of my b6 and have never had any problems with it,and i believe its water soluble so is easy to clean off,and at one point my local dealer would recomend putting this product in new tyres,and in theory once this product is fitted in a tyre it shouldn't ever get a puncture

i just carry one of those plug kits with the gas cannisters inside. i found that stuff is fine for tiny little pin-***** holes but anything else and it just flings out everywhere and all up the undertray and all over the shock.

No product will ever stop you getting a puncture!. As Jambo says never use it as a substitute for checking your tyres more often than people do. Im often shocked at how people come into us with tyres, PSI as low as 5psi, nails in tyres, canvas showing etc and then to be told its felt funny for the past month!

Seriously guys..a blow out on a bike isnt pretty.