If I were skydiving this morning, I would be dead.
04-06-07, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
Yeah, the glueless patches actually use glue to hold the patch on. But it doesn't use vulcanizing fluid to actually fuse the two together. You can peel off a glueless patch later. Try peeling off a patch that's been applied with the "old school" sandpaper & vulcanizing-fluid method and you'll end up tearing the patch or the tube trying to get them apart. The failure-rates of glueless patches is much higher than the older stuff. They're fine for a quick repair on the road, but you really need to follow up with peeling them off later and applying a real patch. 
Originally Posted by idcruiserman
IMO glueless patches suck. Rarely a long term fix in my experience.
Unlike gluey patches, I don't have to worry about the glue being dried up and useless.
As for reliability, I had to use one last August, and it held up fine on that tire for the next 5 months with no leaks that I could detect.
FWIW, if I flat, I always use my spare tube first and only resort to the patches if the spare tube has a problem or gets a second flat (a very rare occurrence).
04-06-07, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by SSP
FWIW, if I flat, I always use my spare tube first and only resort to the patches if the spare tube has a problem or gets a second flat (a very rare occurrence).
I ride my mountain bikes on unpaved roads with tons of goatheads. I MUST run slime in them. On my roadbike, I do just like you do.
04-06-07, 09:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul L.
That's just not fair. Sure I get year round riding but, man, that's a cool place to ride.
We try to do our ride through there a week or two after they've opened the road...it's a real trip riding up switchbacks with 20 foot snowbanks on either side!
