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Puncture repair
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 4:37 pm
by 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.
Re: Puncture repair
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:16 am
by chris_johnson
Cut it close to the tyre.
Re: Puncture repair
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:25 pm
by 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.
Re: Puncture repair
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 7:27 am
by John_Murphy
Any chance of explaining what you mean by "the red strips"? I use a ruuber plug/mushroom for roadside puncture repairs.
Cheers
Re: Puncture repair
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 7:31 pm
by peterbennetive
They are like 3inch lengths of red liquish.
Re: Puncture repair
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 5:30 am
by rjwojcik
Re: Puncture repair
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 8:23 am
by chris_johnson
peterbennetive wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:25 pm
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!
Re: Puncture repair
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 7:42 am
by blade
Few times I had to use it on mine or someone I rode with tyre was this one.
https://www.oxfordproducts.com/grypp-ca ... -k004.html
The hardest with this kit is to find where the puncture is
Kind regards,
Robert