Goop or Slime!!!!!!

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<i>Just to add, Tesco sell 26 inch tubes for £1.85</i>

I am not saying these are rubbish because I just do not know, but I have had bad experiences with cheap inner tubes in the past. With Continental tubes costing about £5, and slime filled around £8, this is one area where I just don't think it is worth penny pinching.

 

[mike killay]

My son in law has had these in about two weeks, will keep the Forum updated!

 

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The Tesco price per tube is around the same as the Aldi price per tube in a box of two. I've been acquring some recently (well, it seemed rude not too, as they look like good quality) and will fit a couple of them sometime soon. I've not heard any bad things about them so far.

 

[Hansen]

I have tried Slime in a tube that I had patched.

I had suffered two punctures in a row, both on the side of the tube facing inwards toward the spokes, before it dawned on me that something was amiss. And sure enough, after I had removed the flimsy rubber ribbon, I noticed a metal splinter on the rim where the drill had been pulled out. Almost like a cat’s tooth.

A Dremel tool and an expensive rim ribbon from Schwalbe, made from a synthetic material, was the cure. The patched up tube held the air nicely. About a month later I came across a bottle of Slime from my motorcycle and decided to give a try. Three months and some 900 kilometres went by without incident, when I suddenly had a slow loss of air. It turned out that the Slime must have dissolved the vulcanizing solution on the patch and had formed what looked like a vein leading to the edge of the patch. Some of the green stuff had oozed out as well. No other punctures were visible. I did not try to save the tube, but discarded it.

The Kenda tyre, that came with my Sunlova kit specifies 85 psi maximum and I ride with 8o psi or thereabouts.

So the lesson I learned: Use Slime in an un-patched or new tube, not in patched one