I for one have not noticed that glueless patches are inferior. I've got one of the first glueless patches I ever applied still holding pressure. It's got to be more than... possibly a year... and I am a year round rider. I do have several bikes so each one isn't ridden every day, but still. Mostly I change tubes and I have more of those lying around than I care to admit... when I have to patch though... I am not likely to go back to liquid cement.

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P.S. I only got onto the glueless patches because once, in an emergency we limped into a Walmart with a flat. It was the Saturday before Easter, and the store was packed. I mention this because we took the bike right into the store and fixed the flat right in their bike sales area using one of their pumps. I did buy the patches. And tire levers. They didn't have any tubes that would fit, and they didn't have any traditional patch kits. Reluctantly I tried the stick on patches. Proof of concept was there but I now recommend Park Tools brand self stick patches if you are going to use self stick patches. Cheaper brands will stick fine, if you can get them off the backing, but you will waste a few doing this. Us cyclists can be real traditionalists. I needed that emergency to force me to change the way I had fixed flats since I was 12. There is a lesson or a point in there somewhere.