NO More Punctures!!

07Lapierre

Just came across this...I see he does Bicycle tyres..thought some people on here might be interested

http://www.preventapuncture.ie/index.php/price-list/

Has anyone used this service? Does it work?

deandean

30 euro for two tyres :eek:

Buy a bottle of Slime in LBS for a tenner.

I use it Slime but in an MTB, and yes it is highly effective in my experience.

hardCopy

I got two years out of a set of slime filled tubes. But when I eventually bought a new set of tyres, the LBS couldn't get the tubes out of the old tyres.

Outkast_IRE

After getting 4 punctures in 3 months last year i bought this , kevlar liner tape for the inside of the tyre.

Have had 0 punctures since i got it and have had to ride over a hell of a lot of broken glass etc. Best purchase i have made in a long time.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=54140

kumate_champ07

Ive been afraid to jinx it, but Ive also had 0 punctures also since fitting the panaracer tape, hopefully it stays that way now..

Outkast_IRE

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

Ive been afraid to jinx it, but Ive also had 0 punctures also since fitting the panaracer tape, hopefully it stays that way now..

Id say it will, when i was cutting mine to size i got a brand new stanley blade, anyone who uses them knows a new stanley blade is like surgeon scalpel sharp, and the blade wouldnt cut the kevlar or poke throught it. Had to get a junior hacksaw to cut off a bit.

kumate_champ07

a large scissors worked for me!

Outkast_IRE

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

a large scissors worked for me!

My scissors wouldnt be the sharpest but it wouldnt work on it at all.

check_six

Remember being sold some kevlar tape for inside my mtb tyres a good few years back. I was regaled with spectacular claims of the kevlar tape's invulnerability to all attacks, sharp or blunt force. I was sold on the idea after suffering a number of punctures, but when I went to leave I remembered something that had been playing on my mind:

"What happens if the tape is too long for the tyres?"

"Oh, you just cut it to length."

"Cut it? But you said..."

the bike shop guy replied "Muahahahahahaha!" there was a puff of smoke, and I found myself standing back on the street, looking back at a derelict shop that looked like it had been abandoned for years. Most peculiar.

Anyhoo, the kevlar tape did fit, and it's great stuff, but I am slightly worried about my eternal soul...

kumate_champ07

the pressure of the inner tube against the tape and tyre carcass compacts the fibres making the barrier more dense,


I used a very large scissors but thats a cutting force from opposite directions, not the kind of thing a bicycle tyre will see in normal use. I think its over 6 months now and no punctures, in 4 years Ive never gone past 3 months. I ride over lots of glass in the city centre


FYI Im using it with the Pasela TG 25mm tyres, Ive had the 23mm before without the extra kevlar tape and didnt they were very bad. 1 puncture after around 1 mile, the other tyre less than 1 mile and it had to be thrown out

Dotsie~tmp

Not required. I went from a puncture every 35 km on average for my first 250km on the bike to zero in 750km over the same glass ridden roads of Finglas. Just buy a quality hardcase.

Mycroft H

You do realise you have all angered the puncture gods? The next time you're out, expect to get three flats in a row.

Dotsie~tmp

BX 19 wrote: »

You do realise you have all angered the puncture gods? The next time you're out, expect to get three flats in a row.

I laugh at the cracked Carlsberg bottles. Spit in the face of mashed up Miller buidéals. God is dead!