Originally Posted by
MMACH 5
I pump my front tire to 120 and the rear to 110. On my road bike, the glueless patches have NEVER failed. Considering that I went for almost two years without a flat, the patches on my tubes have been there for quite a while. My 50-mile RT commute is not what I think anyone would call "bump free."
Go figure.
Exactly correct; I've been using glueless patches for more then 8 years without a single failure on both road and mtb tubes, and most of those patches were used on road tires with pressures sometimes exceeding 125psi. Also go back to my earlier post about the experiment I did with 220psi.
And for someone to say they won't hold past 110 is ignorance and tells me you never used them!! considering the fact that if they do hold up to 110 then anything beyond that would hold because the pressure of the tube against the tire alone would keep them from coming undone; and hitting a "bump" would cause no additional problems. Heck I ridden my road bike with glueless patches on dirt roads with wind ridges, across rough railroad tracks, jumping curbs, potholes, you name it, and never had a problem with a glueless patch not being able to take a "bump"; thats just more ignorance.