Slime inners, and punctures

[Stainlesssteelr]

Has anyone else tried using the Slime inners, that sit between the tube and the tyre?

I have to say that so far they are proving to be useless, having had two punctures in as many weeks
from a stone and thorn which went straight through the liner.

Any good puncture-proof solutions out there? The forest I ride through has a large number of flints
waiting to kill my tyres.

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[Adrian Boliston]

"StainlessSteelRat" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone else tried using the Slime inners, that sit between the tube and the tyre?

Surely all that slime can't do much for tube weight! They say weight on the wheels feels 3 times
heavier than weight on the bike!

 

[Stainlesssteelr]

Adrian Boliston wrote:
>> Has anyone else tried using the Slime inners, that sit between the tube and the tyre?
>
> Surely all that slime can't do much for tube weight! They say weight on the wheels feels 3 times
> heavier than weight on the bike!

These are the plastic strips that sit between the tube and the tyre *not* the liquid stuff, I
wouldn't have used that. In some ways it's a damn good idea, because certain plastics are very
puncture resistant. Unfortunately the Slime inners are not made of this :-(

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[David Damerell]

On 15 Apr 2003 01:49:18 -0700, [email protected] (Russell) wrote:

>Can anyone give me an idea why my chain refuses to stay on the big ring?

>The bike is [...] old

Front chainring is worn out. If you look from the side it's probably "hooked". It the chainline is
very diagonal, the sideways force from it is enough to pull it off. The fix is often to not use low
gears at the back, without shifting down at the front first.

You might even find that just cleaning the chain is enough to fix it !

Or it could be the front changer out of alignment, or it could even be the shifter/cables
(increasingly unlikely).

www.sheldonbrown.com knows all.

BTW - If this has triple chainrings (which I doubt) then _don't adjust the cables. There are two
little screws on the changer itself, which set the limit positions. Set these first for the outer
two rings, then just use the cable adjuster for the middle ring.

 

[Alex Graham]

StainlessSteelRat wrote:

> Any good puncture-proof solutions out there? The forest I ride through has a large number of
> flints waiting to kill my tyres.

Kevlar?

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[Richard Goodman]

"StainlessSteelRat" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone else tried using the Slime inners, that sit between the tube
and
> the tyre?
>
> I have to say that so far they are proving to be useless, having had two punctures in as many
> weeks from a stone and thorn which went straight through the liner.
>

I'm surprised to hear that. I use liners - I'm pretty sure they're the 'slime' ones - and I swear by
them (not at them). They really do work for me, at least over glass-strewn London roads. I've got
tyres that are slashed through the casing all over, in some places the gashes are so wide the liner
is practically the only thing stopping the tube popping out through the tyre, but nothing has ever
penetrated the liner. It's thick and heavy enough that it seems it ought to be able to stop most
ordinary road - or forest - hazards going through.

At least, I doubt there's anything better. If you're using liners and still getting punctures
perhaps the only other thing to try is the other slime product in addition to the liner - that
squishy stuff that goes inside the tube and is supposed to seal any punctures instantly. I've also
had good results with that (used it before I put the liners in instead). At worst it turned what
would have been an instant flat into a slow leak, keeping enough pressure in the tyre to continue
home (this was on a wet day, and water was penetrating between the tyre and tube making it, I
suppose, difficult for the stuff to set and seal) , at best it really did seal punctures leaving the
tubes needing no further attention at all. The two together might keep your tyres up enough to keep
riding and get home before having to deal with punctures acquired en route!

Rich

 

[Stainlesssteelr]

Alex Graham wrote:
>> Any good puncture-proof solutions out there? The forest I ride through has a large number of
>> flints waiting to kill my tyres.
>
> Kevlar?

Is there actually an implementation of this for bike tyres? Or am I going to have wrap bullet-proof
vests around my wheels?

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[Alex Graham]

StainlessSteelRat wrote:
> Alex Graham wrote:
>
>>>Any good puncture-proof solutions out there? The forest I ride through has a large number of
>>>flints waiting to kill my tyres.
>>
>>Kevlar?
>
>
> Is there actually an implementation of this for bike tyres? Or am I going to have wrap
> bullet-proof vests around my wheels?
>

Yes, there are loads of tyres with kevlar belts out there - Schwalbe Marathons for one.

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[Trevor Barton]

StainlessSteelRat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Adrian Boliston wrote:
>>> Has anyone else tried using the Slime inners, that sit between the tube and the tyre?
>>
>> Surely all that slime can't do much for tube weight! They say weight on the wheels feels 3 times
>> heavier than weight on the bike!
>
> These are the plastic strips that sit between the tube and the tyre *not* the liquid stuff, I
> wouldn't have used that. In some ways it's a damn good idea, because certain plastics are very
> puncture resistant. Unfortunately the Slime inners are not made of this :-(

I use them on an MTB with slicks on and have only had one puncture since fitting them, and that was
a fatigue puncture at the end of the inner part of the overlap. However, I'd hardly had any
punctures with this tyre before anyway (Continental Goliath), so statistically it might not be a
good sample, in the 6 or 8 years I've used them I've had about 3. I only started using the slime
strips after a spate of punctures with some knobblies I use in the winter, and left them on when I
changed back to the slicks.

Trev

 

[John B]

Alex Graham wrote:

>
>
> Yes, there are loads of tyres with kevlar belts out there - Schwalbe Marathons for one.
>

Yes they do. I've just mended a puncture on one that has covered barely 300 miles :-(

John B

 

[Alex Graham]

John B wrote:

> Yes they do. I've just mended a puncture on one that has covered barely 300 miles :-(

Its all about luck really, isnt it. Bad luck that time!

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[Michael Green]

"StainlessSteelRat" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone else tried using the Slime inners, that sit between the tube and the tyre?
>
> I have to say that so far they are proving to be useless, having had two punctures in as many
> weeks from a stone and thorn which went straight through the liner.
>
> Any good puncture-proof solutions out there? The forest I ride through has a large number of
> flints waiting to kill my tyres.
Try Kairfree tyre liners. Not puncture free but at least 90% reduction. Oh and they're a
bugger to fit.