Online: Neale, Hilly

Stop & Go Tyre repair kit

  • Fireypete
    Fireypete
    10 years ago

    Did a little research on repair kits and this seemed like the best of the bunch.  The Stop and Go kit off flea bay for $49 delivered.

    Now I have used this kit and I'm pretty bloody happy with it.  Picked up a screw, a pretty large one, in the rear tyre.  So I get home, pull out the kit and follow the instructions and here I am nearly 1,000k later riding on that plug in all sorts of weather and some errrr touring speeds and it does not leak.  Blasted down the Island yesterday for the classic racing on it.

    Now I know its not the done thing to ride on a plugged tyre, the whole bike may explode and kill a basket of kittens or something but it still looks fine and not a leak of air from it.  So for me, worth every cent and then some.    Oh, I got a few extra CO2 cylinders and a push bike adaptor/inflator off flea bay and a neat michelin tyre guage from pommy land, small light accurate.  Fuck leaving the bike on the side of the road or trusting it to a tow truck driver.

  • rider
    rider
    10 years ago

    You're onto it.
  • FXST11
    FXST11
    10 years ago

    I use the Cargol tubeless puncture repair kit.
    http://www.kenma.com.au/tyre_repair.html

     

  • Outcast
    Outcast
    10 years ago
    I thought the plugs in these kits was supposed to be a temporary measure until you could get to a tyre place to get the tyre properly inspected & repaired properly. I'm not sure continuing to ride around on what is ostensibly a temporary repair is a good idea especially as you have no way of knowing what sort of damage might have been done to the tyre structure.

    Just my 2c worth
  • rider
    rider
    10 years ago
    All tyres have two big holes in them, one on the left and one on the right, the rim is just one big plug that fills both holes at the same time !
  • xlr8it
    xlr8it
    10 years ago
    I think all my tyres had a plug in them at some stage that I fixed on the side of the road, never got them inspected or "properly" repaired and never had a problem, rode on them till they were worn out.