How do you know if you have a puncture??

Jack Ouzzi said:

Anyone used these play dough slimey jelly self sealing inner tubes ?

I mean if they self-seal how dya know if you have had a puncture ??
Do you realise that you have had 28 punctures only when you remove the
tyre for renewal .......... Do they effect the balace of the wheel
when 'self sealing' ?

At around £7 to £11 are they worth it ??

Yes.A chap I know has done a good write up for 2 'no-tubes' systems (maybe
not the thing you are thinking of), these are £24 each wheel.
He is dead genuine, and does give his bike a lot of use, so it is a pretty
good long-term review:
http://homepages.tesco.net/~petersons/Reviews/stans/Stansnotubes.htm

Alan.

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A.Lee said:

Yes.A chap I know has done a good write up for 2 'no-tubes' systems
(maybe not the thing you are thinking of), these are £24 each wheel.
He is dead genuine, and does give his bike a lot of use, so it is a
pretty good long-term review:
http://homepages.tesco.net/~petersons/Reviews/stans/Stansnotubes.htm

That is different, it really does use no tubes!

~PB

Jack Ouzzi said:

Anyone used these play dough slimey jelly self sealing inner tubes ?

I mean if they self-seal how dya know if you have had a puncture ??

You don't know and you don't need to know, if it's only a tiny puncture
and the stuff worked.

I've used WrenchForce tubes that contained a sealant liquid. Larger
punctures were obvious from a hissing or bubling sound/sight. These
punctures are left in the 6 o'clock position to give the stuff a chance to
work. Doesn't always work, sometimes requires patching as normal. In
fact it's a good idea to patch anyway, eventually, if you find what look
like punctures in the tube.

Quoted message said:

Do you realise that you have had 28 punctures only when you remove the
tyre for renewal ..........

You might do.

Quoted message said:

Do they effect the balace of the wheel
when 'self sealing' ?

Not really. The stuff sloshes about evenly, I suppose. Weight is a
factor, though: much heavier than normal tubes

Quoted message said:

At around £7 to £11 are they worth it ??

Maybe if you're terribly bothered by punctures -- either just the
frequency or you /really/ don't like fixing them, ever. Highly puncture
resistant tyres is normally a good enough solution, IMO.

~PB

Pete Biggs said:

Jack Ouzzi said:

Anyone used these play dough slimey jelly self sealing inner tubes ?

I mean if they self-seal how dya know if you have had a puncture ??

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

At around £7 to £11 are they worth it ??

Maybe if you're terribly bothered by punctures -- either just the
frequency or you /really/ don't like fixing them, ever. Highly puncture
resistant tyres is normally a good enough solution, IMO.

Na, I'm happy doing an 'on the road' repair or replace with a spare
tube and do the repair at home with a LARGE cup of tea and a LARGE
angel cake............. If I had 20p for every puncture :-) :-)

Just wondered is all ................... and I suppose it is all
relative, more miles yer do, more chances there are.

I have some Continental Ultra Gator Duraskins - (700 x 25) on the way
for winter ...... see what they are like.

Thanks for the replies ..............

M

Jack Ouzzi <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Anyone used these play dough slimey jelly self sealing inner tubes ?

I mean if they self-seal how dya know if you have had a puncture ??
Do you realise that you have had 28 punctures only when you remove the
tyre for renewal .......... Do they effect the balace of the wheel
when 'self sealing' ?

At around £7 to £11 are they worth it ??

So with the price of a couple of decent puncture resistant tyres, and
a couple of slimey wobbly inner tubes, you can almost buy a decent
second hand bike !!

Hmmm ........

I used to use this stuff on my motorbike and found it only worked for
a little while before it stopped sealing the puncture. I stopped
using it because
1) when I had a bike with inner tubes I couldn't then get the patches
to stick.
2) When I got a bigger bike with tubless tyres it made a huge mess and
the bike shop refused to work on them.
Of course that was some time ago now things may have moved on since
then 🙂
Sniper8052

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:58:34 +0100, Jack Ouzzi
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Quoted message said:

I'm happy doing an 'on the road' repair or replace with a spare
tube and do the repair at home with a LARGE cup of tea and a LARGE
angel cake

This is in order to give you a total perspective on the improbability
of it?

I'll get me towel...

Guy
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On a point of punctures why do they always have to be in the rear tyre?
Sniper8052

Quoted message said:

On a point of punctures why do they always have to be in the rear
tyre? Sniper8052

Front wheel flips up debris on the road which then punctures the rear
tyre -- there is also more weight on the rear.

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:58:34 +0100, Jack Ouzzi
<[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):

Quoted message said:

Pete Biggs said:

Jack Ouzzi said:

Anyone used these play dough slimey jelly self sealing inner tubes ?

I mean if they self-seal how dya know if you have had a puncture ??

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

At around £7 to £11 are they worth it ??

Maybe if you're terribly bothered by punctures -- either just the
frequency or you /really/ don't like fixing them, ever. Highly puncture
resistant tyres is normally a good enough solution, IMO.

Na, I'm happy doing an 'on the road' repair or replace with a spare
tube and do the repair at home with a LARGE cup of tea and a LARGE
angel cake............. If I had 20p for every puncture :-) :-)

Due to imminent legal threats, Gawnsoft Inc. will be unable to work
out how many inner tube replacements it takes to work off one large
angel cake.

But our lawyers are guessing that this is where the extra 3kg came
from. :-)

Quoted message said:

Just wondered is all ................... and I suppose it is all
relative, more miles yer do, more chances there are.

I have some Continental Ultra Gator Duraskins - (700 x 25) on the way
for winter ...... see what they are like.

Thanks for the replies ..............

M

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Gawnsoft said:

On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:58:34 +0100, Jack Ouzzi
<[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):

Quoted message said:

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 17:38:49 +0100, "Pete Biggs"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Na, I'm happy doing an 'on the road' repair or replace with a spare
tube and do the repair at home with a LARGE cup of tea and a LARGE
angel cake............. If I had 20p for every puncture :-) :-)

Due to imminent legal threats, Gawnsoft Inc. will be unable to work
out how many inner tube replacements it takes to work off one large
angel cake.

But our lawyers are guessing that this is where the extra 3kg came
from. :-)

All legal threats towards Gawnsoft Inc will now be withdrawn :-|

M

"Simonb" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Front wheel flips up debris on the road which then punctures the rear
tyre -- there is also more weight on the rear.

So some theorise but I've had more punctures in the front than the rear.
Front tyre gets first refusal on anything puncture-causing in the way, and
usually takes it, IME! And yes, I do inflate my tyres properly.

Rich

Richard Goodman said:

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Quoted message said:

Front wheel flips up debris on the road which then punctures the rear
tyre -- there is also more weight on the rear.

So some theorise but I've had more punctures in the front than the
rear. Front tyre gets first refusal on anything puncture-causing in
the way, and usually takes it, IME! And yes, I do inflate my tyres
properly.

I've always had more punctures in the rear, with all sorts of tyres.

~PB

Jack Ouzzi said:

Anyone used these play dough slimey jelly self sealing inner tubes ?

Yep. I really should get some for the front of the trike.

Quoted message said:

I mean if they self-seal how dya know if you have had a puncture ??
Do you realise that you have had 28 punctures only when you remove the
tyre for renewal

You jest, but that's more or less what happened when our tandem front
left tyre finally went flat from a nasty quartz gash - there were about
28-30 thorns in there as well that the slime had dealt with.

Quoted message said:

At around £7 to £11 are they worth it ??

I'd say so. Beats fixing punctures - and it's a darn sight cheaper than
28 new tubes, if you don't bother fixing punctures :-)

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On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:02:39 +0100, "Richard Goodman"
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Front wheel flips up debris on the road which then punctures the rear
tyre -- there is also more weight on the rear.

Quoted message said:

So some theorise but I've had more punctures in the front than the rear.
Front tyre gets first refusal on anything puncture-causing in the way, and
usually takes it, IME!

OTOH it's easier to dodge that piece of puncture weed with a quick
swerve of the front wheel, but the back will track straight through
it...

Guy
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"Jack Ouzzi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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The tyre goes flat!

Alan