greetings all.

I have been experiencing a series of flats on the road lately, and yesterday had to get a rescue from my wife. I decided to look into tire liners and bought the "Slime" liners at Wal Mart. I installed them after much fumbling and felt pretty satisfied on a job well done; until I stopped in here and searched for tire liners and found this thread. I read every post and realized I might need to check to see if the liners had indeed stayed in place as I reassembled the whole mess.

You guessed it, both had worked their way around as I installed them and were very uneven around the circumference of the tire/tube. I pondered a bit wondering how I could keep them in place so as to have them nicely centered. I thought maybe the two-sided carpet tape I use for installing golf club grips might be sticky enough to adhere to both the liner and the inside of the tire. I tested a small piece on both and it stuck very well.

I then realized it might be a bit on the wide side as it is the same width of the liner. To make it more manageable, I used a utility knife to cut around the roll to get it half as wide and coincidentally about the same width as the contact patch of an inflated tire. Now this tape is somewhat fiberous and very thin, so I figure it will serve two purposes: 1. to hold the liner in place as I reinstall tire and tube and 2. provide just a teeny bit of extra protection against punctures. I was very careful to get the tape centered on the liner first. I then flipped the tire inside out to make sticking it easier to get centered. After it was all back together, I carefully checked to make sure the tire was evenly seated in the rim. In fact, I checked it three times, once with only a few pounds of air, then again with about 30lbs and again at about 50lbs before fully inflating. I finished off the liner with a generous piece of duct tape (yes it's pink because that is all I had and was left over from wrapping the handlebars on one of the grandaughter's bikes because she insisted on having pink ones; and who am I to argue with a 2.5-year old.)

I fully realize that some say these are not needed and others say they will do more harm than good. However with the severity of trash on my routes (and I don't have a lot to choose from), I needed to try something to cut down on the road-side repairs that have a way of spoiling an otherwise pleasant ride. I will keep you posted how this works out. I think one added bonus will be that the liner should (hopefully) stay in place in the event that I pick up a bad enough piece of debris to have to do another repair on the road.

Here is a series of pictures show how it all worked out.