Originally Posted by
Garfield Cat
How do you measure the risks? As a kid the bike I had and the tubes would probably go up to 40 psi. Now it can go up to 100 psi. Does that make a difference? As a kid the kind of material used in tubes, and where it comes from, does that make a difference?
The risk of a major failure is the loss of control of the bike and into a traffic lane. Or just no traffic but on a fast descent resulting in a fall. How much money would that cost?
Generally when a traditional patch fails, it fails because it wasn't given enough time for the solvents to evaporate, before it was encased in a tire, so it never dries properly. If you patch a tube and then give it a good 24hrs for the solvents to evaporate, before packing it up, the chances of that patch coming loose, is between slim and none. I always water test patched tubes before packing them, because I have seen where a tube has more then one hole in it, or the patch didn't take. I have never seen a catastrophic patch failure that would result in a crash......