that was easy - tubeless trye repair

[Austin]

Fixed a puncture in my son's moped's tubeless tyre this weekend. Easy peasy, took about 5 mins Didn't even take the wheel off.

Used a kit from Hein Gericke: - unscrewed the 2" screw from the tyre, reamed out the hole with the tool provided, fixed a "patch" to the tool, covered it all in glue, shoved it all right into the tyre, pulled it out and cut the excess off. Pumped it back up and bingo, job done. and its still up.

Question...... can I consider this a permanent repair or do I have to get a "proper" job done? bear in mind this is a moped: top speed officially 30mph, but will reach 40 or so eventually.

[Lumiya]

I have to do the rear on my GPz900 and for a bike of that power I'll be taking off the tyre and fitting a proper mushroom patch from the inside (as long as it's not one of then awful ribbed tyres!!!

As for the moped as long as the patch is secure and vulcanised OK then there shouldn;t be a problem, not as if he's doing motorway speeds on it.

Kymmy

[Chad]

those repairs are rated up to 50mph so on a scooter i would consider it a good job

[Whealie]

and its still up.

Not bad for someone of your age.

[davsato]

if it doesnt lose any air in the first few hours id say the jobs a good'un.

as long as, like kymmy says, its not one of those horrid ribbed (cracked, hard, slippery, etc) chinese cheapo tyres. they are deadly, even without a repair. the rubber solution doesnt stick to them, im sure they are made out of recycled binliners.

personally i swear by ultraseal in my tyres, warranted up to 6mm hole repair and good for 150mph, ive done that and better and im not dead. at least i dont think i am.

[Lumiya]

if it doesnt lose any air in the first few hours id say the jobs a good'un.

as long as, like kymmy says, its not one of those horrid ribbed (cracked, hard, slippery, etc) chinese cheapo tyres. they are deadly, even without a repair. the rubber solution doesnt stick to them, im sure they are made out of recycled binliners.

personally i swear by ultraseal in my tyres, warranted up to 6mm hole repair and good for 150mph, ive done that and better and im not dead. at least i dont think i am.

150MPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes I know that's what ultraseal say but a ZR tyre is only gaurenteed at 140MPH+ never mind the V/H ranges as used on the AT's/TA's

I'm shocked at thier ratings as at those speeds it's more the capability of the tyre to cope with keeping the layers together than the rubber breaking away.

After seeing too many repaired tyres fail (even with proper repairs never mind a liquid repair) I personally wont run a repaired tyre over 100MPH and only will only use it about 50MPH if I'm confident of the repair.

I'd be most interested to see what conditions Ultraseal place on thier product coping with 150mph and especially for how long and under what conditions.

Kymmy

[davsato]

i know of at least six punctures (ultraseal leaves a little pink dot on the outside of the tyre when it comes out) its saved me from, and on my last bike, 955i triumph, 150+ was a regular occurance, ahem, on a track you understand! (one reason to swap to the vara, it was all getting suicidally "easy")
this was all in the same rear tyre, bridgestone BT020. why is it always the rear? i never had a problem with the front?

although they were all small punctures, the hook off a coathanger(complete with size 46" tag from M+S, so if youre a rep who drives along the M27 and your jacket blew out the window of your mercaudeo, i ran it over you tosser) nails, screws, various bits of wire and pop rivet tails. although i had no problems with the stuff at all, im not sure i would let a 1/4" hole stay in my tyre! i do believe the ultraseal would at least stop a massive blowout and leave you alive to get a new tyre.

[Chad]

the hook off a coathanger(complete with size 46" tag from M+S, so if youre a rep who drives along the M27 and your jacket blew out the window of your mercaudeo, i ran it over you tosser)

[Mabels Old Man]

Had a [uncture in Corsica which I repaired with a kit. It was still in the tyre when I changed them last week 2,000 miles and lots of high speed motorway later. Stupid I know but I wasn't going to take the tyre off when it was so close to being worn out.

[cbrpaddy]

When I had Fireblades and stuff I used to use those cans of blowey-uppie stuffie from garages, can't think the name of them. It inflates the tyre so much and you're meant to drive a few miles immediately to get the goo worked into the hole.
It was only meant as a short-term measure to get you home (according to the guff on the can) and a lot of folks would say once a superbike tyre has been damaged you should just discard it, but I used to run them at full speeds and for the rest of their working life with absolutely no problems, and I must have used it on over ten tyres over the years. A guy I know is a road racer, the proper Irish stuff, and he uses it all the time too, even on his racebikes, and swears by it. Whatever that says about us I don't know, but god I hate tubes