Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
My biggest problem with patches is that by the time I need one I can't find them. I buy a pack of 3 or 4 and they're missing or dried out a year later when I need one. I guess I can't get much sympathy on that point though...
I don't have a problem with patches drying out, but once opened the vulcanizing fluid will dry out very quickly in the saddle bag - a couple weeks in the summer, so I always keep an unopened one too. It would be nice if there were 'single serving' sized vulcanizing fluid as I usually end up having 90% of the tube dry out before I use it.
(Those German patches I recommended earlier in this thread are the Rema ones that others recommended earlier - the name had slipped my mind.)
Al