Puncture Repair Kits

Do you prefer the puncture repair route or the puncture prevention route, ie: repair kit or slime/ultraseal?

I want to get something for the weekend jaunt oop north and I don't want no stinking puncture spoiling my fun.

Didn't know you could get punture repair kits for tubeless tyres.

[mattSV]

Definately the puncture repair kit option



coz I can use it too if I get a puncture - you having slime in your tyres ain't going to help me

[fizzwheel]

I've got some holts emergency tyre seal under my seat. Ive used it twice to fix a puncture and get me home.

I'm wandering if a proper kit might be better for this weekend though as riding on a proper plug I think woudl be better than relying on the tyre seal as its only supposed to be used as a temporary measure.

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

I've got some holts emergency tyre seal under my seat. Ive used it twice to fix a puncture and get me home.

I'm wandering if a proper kit might be better for this weekend though as riding on a proper plug I think woudl be better than relying on the tyre seal as its only supposed to be used as a temporary measure.

Never really considered mending my own puntures (obvious by my previous post )

Surley mending a punture yourself is a workshop job (paddock stand, tyre levers etc) not really the kind of thing you can do on a weekend away (or is it) ?

Originally Posted by mattSV

Definately the puncture repair kit option

coz I can use it too if I get a puncture - you having slime in your tyres ain't going to help me

Yeah! We'll fix yours then I'll get a ****ing puncture.

Go The repair kit option. The thing that concerns me about the gunk in the tyre products such as Ultraseal, is that it fix's the puncture without you knowing you had one. Now if that just happens to be in the side wall of the tyre or another place where it could make the tyre unstable and you don't know about it, means it could be quite dangerous. With the Jim'll fix it style repair kit you know about the puncture, repair it, and get yourself to the nearest tyre fitter to get it "fixed propper like" **has to be said in a west country accent**

Looks to me like the repair kit is getting the nod. That it is then.

Go for the repair kit every time. You've physically inspected and repaired the puncture, so you've got some idea of how far/fast to go on it.

Ultraseal seems to work ok, but as has been said, you don't know whether you've got a puncture or not, which is not ideal.

The Holts gunge which goes in post puncture has never once worked for me, and I stopped using it after the aerosol went off under the seat, causing all manner of bad language, and a tool kit that was never the same again.

[northwind]

The thing with Ultraseal, is that if it does subsequently fail it'll be no worse than the initial puncture would have been- so at worst it delays a horrific accident I used to use it, but I don't now, it adds a bit of weight to the tyres.

If I was going touring, I'd use it again though. It completely saved my neck when I tore a worn rear up at speed once, and when I got a puncture in my rear roadtec, it did such a good job of the repair I never even knew it had punctured- usually you'd get a pressure drop, but the tyre never lost more than 2 psi over the time it must have happened.