puncture repairs (leaking)

I had a pilot road repaired after it had a nail had puncured it, i never sorted the problem because it was only a very slow puncture so the nail was probaly in for about 3k.

Anyway the puncuture repair has lasted less than 2 weeks i'm guessing around 400 miles, has this happened to anyone else.

The guy in the bike shop said i didn't have to watch my speed so i rode as i normally would have, not sure if this may have had an effect?

I have also got a gravel drive could this have been a very unlucky piece of gravel pushing the patch.

cheers, I have also just filled the tire with that slime stuff, have a made a mistake? I really need to go to work tomorrow as its my first day.

[Spiderman]

So my first question is this. What type of repair did the guy at tehe shop do? Was it just a patch or a proper plug style one?

Ive had a couple of punctures repaired and they have never failed on me so your one sounds odd.

The slime stuff... i did consider it myself but having read a few bad opinions on here about it ive decided against it. Do a search, thers bound to be lots to read. Tho i still aint got myself a puncture repair kit for under the seat.

I guess that slime stuff should get you to work and back, bit of an uneccesary headache on your first day at a new job tho eh?

Good luck with it, at least it'll give you something to talk about

[rictus01]

the longer you leave a nail (or anything) in the more damage is done to the carcase of the tyre, this may have an affect on the ability of a plug to seal the puncture went eventualey appied, my advice would be to remove any forgien bodies as soon as possible.

Cheers Mark.

It was a proper plug type repair.

never known one of them fail.

Hi.

Are you just assuming it is the previous puncture causing the leak or do you know for sure. The chances are the valve could be leaking or you may have picked up another puncture.

From what I have read, your tyre is now toast if you have used TyreWeld or something similar.

Tim

Used slime as the puncture repair which has worked, holds pressure well and seems to ride ok, does feel a little diffrent though.

The tire was already pretty far gone so it will get scrapped this weekend, the front feels like it lost profile as well so it also going to get changed, thing pilot road 2 has anyone used them?

Pretty sure it the punture repair that went because its a very round hole in exactley the same place that the old puncute was, it big enough that you can actually see where the green slime stuff has sealed. Not the valve because i dont think the slime can fix valve faliures.

TBH pretty impressed with the slime as a short term/emergency measure cetainly beats walking of getting the bike towed to a gargage.

I tried ultraseal for a similar slow puncture situation, I was taken in by the hype. It didn't work ! Stuff continued to ooze out of the (tiny) hole for weeks with me topping air up every morning until I finally gave in and got it repaired. Cost me £20 for the ultraseal & another £20 for the repair !

[jambo]

A propper puncture repair done by taking the tyre off the rim and fitting from the inside should be permenant and fine. one pushed on from the outside is more likley not to last forever as it's ment as a temorary repair.

I stear away from ultraseal / slime and keep a propper puncture repair kit under the seat

A bit of spit on the suspected area (or fairy liquid and water) will show where the air is leaking from for sure.