Puncture repair

[peterbennetive]

This is for all you repairers that get us out of trouble during our rideouts. I had a puncture the other day and tried repairing it using the red strips. It showed a slow leak after l cut the excess of.
Was l supposed to cut the excess down to the edge of the tyre or leave a little? I cut it close to the tyre.
Cheers.

[chris_johnson]

Cut it close to the tyre.

[peterbennetive]

Hi Chris. It's great to hear from you. I hope you're all OK, I've missed you on the rides. This was the 1st time I tried plugging a puncture. I thought the instructions were idiot prove? But maybe not.

[John_Murphy]

Any chance of explaining what you mean by "the red strips"? I use a ruuber plug/mushroom for roadside puncture repairs.
Cheers

[peterbennetive]

They are like 3inch lengths of red liquish.

[rjwojcik]

Something like this I guess?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BT4TGHXZ? ... 3jma6crrzp

Where as John is referring to this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08BNPMS87? ... 3jma6crrzj

[chris_johnson]

Hi Chris. It's great to hear from you. I hope you're all OK, I've missed you on the rides. This was the 1st time I tried plugging a puncture. I thought the instructions were idiot prove? But maybe not.

Thanks, I am fine. It was my role as a 24/7 carer for my wife which forced me to stop attending the Group, and I still miss the camaraderie and the rides a lot. If that was the first time you have had to plug a puncture you have been a very, very lucky man!

As the one-time "EAMG Puncture King" I preferred to use mushroom plugs, but for a puncture which was more of a gash than a hole these were inadequate and I had to resort to one of the 'sticky string' approaches. I also found a cheap little electric compressor to be a Godsend.

Sometimes nothing works and you have to wait for recovery. A 2" gash in the KTM rear tyre was such an occasion, as was picking up three simultaneous punctures on the Blade!