DuctTapedGoat
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Well, as I said. A 12 dollar thing of slime per wheel is 24 bucks. You prolly didn't get the slime cause your tires AREN'T flat, so you buy new tubes too, another 6-8 bucks at least. Suddenly the price tag is well over 30 bucks with tax. Do you have a valve core remover? If not, you're prolly going to buy one of them too, which could be only 5 more bucks, but now just to slime a tire it's near 40 bucks.
The topic is about preslimed tubes, and he doesn't say if it was slime brand or not. It could be Specialized brand tubes with their glue based sealant. Objectively, the most I can gather is that he bought tubes prefilled with something and it didn't work.
In one of my first posts I said the predone tubes are about the same price as liners, and the liners will actually work at preventing a hole in your tube.
It'd be cool if more people had the luck others do with slime, I know that with the entire tricounty area here you may as well clamp some vice grips onto your valve stem as tight as you can get them and start riding with them on there if you think slime is going to stop anything.
I myself don't need to take a slime test - I've had my fair share of it.
I could take a .22 and shoot each one of my tires on my bike right now, knowing that I'm going to be fine getting home, and I don't use slime. I travel knowing that if I needed to I could travel almost 140 miles if I needed to, and that's if I leave my wallet at home.
How often do I change the oil in my car? Every time I'm at the pump I'm mixing it in a gas can. I don't operate anything besides a motorized bike.
If I ran over that lockjaw nail in reality riding down the road it'd punch through my sidewall, and then I'd have to repair the tube. If you ran over that lockjaw nail in reality, you'd be stranded with a flat and no tools.
I'm not angry that you don't get flats, if anything I'm glad for you - but it does upset me that you would suggest that people NOT take repair kits and tools with them when they're riding just because you don't. Your terrain is different in New Mexico than it is anywhere else in the country. If there's a goathead plant on a trail here in Idaho it's got a 12 foot diameter. I owned a trailer a few years ago, when I got it the entire yard was goatheads. Literally, no grass, 150 square yards of nothing but thick flourishing goatheads.
Where mother nature isn't flattening tires, brother man is. Cars drive down bike routes throwing half inch tacks out their windows because they don't like bicycles on their 5 minute work commute. Anywhere that has active construction can have anything from roofing staples to 16 penny nails to tack strip. Broken glass and shards of metal on the sides of the highway that people throw out their windows and falls out of the beds of pickups.
Not everyone lives where you do, nor do they live where I do. There's people on this forum all across the world. I don't expect myself to know what the terrain is in every neighborhood worldwide, and I'm fine with that. I do know that if you're prepare for the worst and hope for the best you're going to be in better shape than if you were to take poor advice such as not taking a repair kit with you when you're on the road.
Slime doesn't cut it 100% of the time. For you it might, and like I said, I'm glad for you, but it will not hold up to everything for everyone. That's just a fact.
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Correction. Goatheads would have to get through your tires first. So, why are you defending the 24$ full slime treatment on 18$ worth of tubes? You're on Armadillos, which are a kevlar compound tire!! The very day they were released those years ago I was there with my HUNDRED AND FORTY dollars in hand for two tires. The topic is about preslimed tubes, not kevlar compound tires... Are you assuming that everybody else is rolling around on 150 dollars in tires, 25 in slime and another 20 in tubes? After tax it's two hundred bucks in tube and tire. The topic is about a 5 dollar tube.
To those of us who aren't on 200 dollar tires and tubes, this is the Goathead story.
First, you get the whole thing in your tire and you see the ugly knot stickin out of the tire.
Then you're still riding, it breaks off.
You're losing air, cause the slime hasn't been centrifugal forced into the hole yet.
When you lose PSI, your tube will travel inside the tire. Notabley when you see that your valvestem is about to be ripped off due to low pressure.
The goathead is in the TIRE not the tube, but it has pierced the tube.
The tube moves and the goathead either pierces it again, or it tears the tube.
It's not magic, that's the way it is.
The topic is about preslimed tubes, and he doesn't say if it was slime brand or not. It could be Specialized brand tubes with their glue based sealant. Objectively, the most I can gather is that he bought tubes prefilled with something and it didn't work.
In one of my first posts I said the predone tubes are about the same price as liners, and the liners will actually work at preventing a hole in your tube.
It'd be cool if more people had the luck others do with slime, I know that with the entire tricounty area here you may as well clamp some vice grips onto your valve stem as tight as you can get them and start riding with them on there if you think slime is going to stop anything.
I myself don't need to take a slime test - I've had my fair share of it.
I could take a .22 and shoot each one of my tires on my bike right now, knowing that I'm going to be fine getting home, and I don't use slime. I travel knowing that if I needed to I could travel almost 140 miles if I needed to, and that's if I leave my wallet at home.
How often do I change the oil in my car? Every time I'm at the pump I'm mixing it in a gas can. I don't operate anything besides a motorized bike.
If I ran over that lockjaw nail in reality riding down the road it'd punch through my sidewall, and then I'd have to repair the tube. If you ran over that lockjaw nail in reality, you'd be stranded with a flat and no tools.
I'm not angry that you don't get flats, if anything I'm glad for you - but it does upset me that you would suggest that people NOT take repair kits and tools with them when they're riding just because you don't. Your terrain is different in New Mexico than it is anywhere else in the country. If there's a goathead plant on a trail here in Idaho it's got a 12 foot diameter. I owned a trailer a few years ago, when I got it the entire yard was goatheads. Literally, no grass, 150 square yards of nothing but thick flourishing goatheads.
Where mother nature isn't flattening tires, brother man is. Cars drive down bike routes throwing half inch tacks out their windows because they don't like bicycles on their 5 minute work commute. Anywhere that has active construction can have anything from roofing staples to 16 penny nails to tack strip. Broken glass and shards of metal on the sides of the highway that people throw out their windows and falls out of the beds of pickups.
Not everyone lives where you do, nor do they live where I do. There's people on this forum all across the world. I don't expect myself to know what the terrain is in every neighborhood worldwide, and I'm fine with that. I do know that if you're prepare for the worst and hope for the best you're going to be in better shape than if you were to take poor advice such as not taking a repair kit with you when you're on the road.
Slime doesn't cut it 100% of the time. For you it might, and like I said, I'm glad for you, but it will not hold up to everything for everyone. That's just a fact.
ADD:
Correction. Goatheads would have to get through your tires first. So, why are you defending the 24$ full slime treatment on 18$ worth of tubes? You're on Armadillos, which are a kevlar compound tire!! The very day they were released those years ago I was there with my HUNDRED AND FORTY dollars in hand for two tires. The topic is about preslimed tubes, not kevlar compound tires... Are you assuming that everybody else is rolling around on 150 dollars in tires, 25 in slime and another 20 in tubes? After tax it's two hundred bucks in tube and tire. The topic is about a 5 dollar tube.
To those of us who aren't on 200 dollar tires and tubes, this is the Goathead story.
First, you get the whole thing in your tire and you see the ugly knot stickin out of the tire.
Then you're still riding, it breaks off.
You're losing air, cause the slime hasn't been centrifugal forced into the hole yet.
When you lose PSI, your tube will travel inside the tire. Notabley when you see that your valvestem is about to be ripped off due to low pressure.
The goathead is in the TIRE not the tube, but it has pierced the tube.
The tube moves and the goathead either pierces it again, or it tears the tube.
It's not magic, that's the way it is.
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