Puncture repair kit

[fireblake]

I'm hoping to go to Europe this year and see a bit and was wondering what every bodies favourite type of puncture repair kit is?
In the past I've used Slime but before I had a puncture, well I never had one so it may have work brilliantly or not, who knows. But never fitted after a flatty?
And I've had professional repairs done and been more than happy with the remaining tyre wear and life.
I'm just wondering what everyone else uses especially the high mileage boys and girls? Bearing in mind space in a back pack or under the saddle.


Cheers,    Mickey

[Grahamm]

I have Puncturesafe in my tyres which seals the hole as soon as you pull out the offending nail or whatever...

http://www.ultraseal.biz/home1.htm

[fireblake]

Grahamm, you're a star, I've spent ages reading all the gumph about Puncturesafe and it looks like what I'm after. And is made in the UK from a company not afraid of showing their address, which is good in my opinion.


Thanks for this link,    Mickey

[His Dudeness]

i've used the stringy type plugs a few times and they worked fine for me

[Strifae]

Puncture safe is fantastic used it on my old bike and it fully fixed a nail puncture for 2000 more miles

Brilliant stuff and very easy to put in yourself

[flyboy]

[color=rgb(0, 0, 0)] I carry one these kits, never tried  it at the road side,  but have once deliberately punchered a worn out tyre and repaired it. Not a pound of pressure was lost in over a week, and when I  [/color]removed the tyre,  try as I might I could not pull the plug out from the inside of the tyre using pliers. Finally the end of the plug pulled  off .

  http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Motorcycle-Tyr...2eb5f4ffb6

[Grahamm]

The reason I went for Puncturesafe is that it is an *immediate* plug, so even if something makes a hole and then falls out, the tyre still doesn't deflate.

With plug kits, if you're on the road you're going to lose some or all of the air and the CO2 cartridges will only give enough pressure to let you ride slowly (no more that 50kph) to somewhere that you can pump the tyre up again.

Also what can happen is that the object might make a hole, then the tyre slowly starts to deflate, but you don't actually realise it until it starts to affect the handling. By that time you've been riding on a soft tyre and you may well have knackered the side-walls as they heat up from the tyre body moving from side to side and the tyre needs replacing anyway.