I agree with the remark that glueless patches are only temporary is a bunch of crap.

I have repeatly posted on this subject many times about this. I have been using Glueless patches for at least 8 years AND NEVER HAD A FAILURE...NOR NEVER HAD TO REPLACE THE PATCH WHEN I GOT HOME WITH A GLUE ON TYPE!!! This is fallacy about glueless patches comes from people either never using them and are tied to the old ways, or people that just don't know how to use them.

I'm old enough to remember that as a kid I use to had to vulcanize patches on tubes by lighting it on fire!! I also remember the old guys saying that glue on patches don't work and not to use them! Those old guys remind me of some of you today!

At one time I had over a dozen glueless patches on one road tube, and continued to ride on that tube for several years and only last year tossed when the valve stem failed. And because of all this debate about 5 years ago on this same subject I took my mtb and put about a 1/16th inch hole in my front tube and then patched it with a glueless patch. (Don't try this unless your willing to sacrifice a rim and possible injury); I remounted the tire with the fixed tube and attached a air chuck with a long hose then attached the air trigger so I could fill the tire while setting behind a car, then placed the rim in a trash can. I then proceeded in putting air into the tire, checking the seating at about 20PSI and again at 45, then proceeded to go to 220psi! The tire and the rim held much to my surprise. What was more surprising is that the patch held. I held that pressure for week, then dropped the pressure back down to 60 and rode the bike steadly for week. 5 years later that tube with that same glueless patch is still at work!

And just as Freako mentioned, the success of making a glueless patch work is to make sure the hole area is clean and alcohol pads work great for that, but so does roughing the patch with emery paper.

And as I have also stated numerious times before, I always patch first before going to my spare tube, and the glueless patch makes that job faster then the old school glue on type. Faster means this, take the above post by FCORMIER and eliminate the glueing part and the 5 minutes for the glue to dry, you save at least 6 minutes.