12-01-13, 06:56 PM
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.
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.