Tubelss tyre repair - how its done properly.

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A customer dropped in today with a clanger. He caught a sharp pothole and big flint wrong and got a through and through puncture. Still not sure how. The whole was big enough for his finger.

I have said before tubeless fails are user error and a tube is never needed. This rider has gone and proved it. Using 3.5mm and 1.5mm worms he fixed it and carried on his ride. So leave your tubes at home. Even clangers can be fixed.
he used loctite flexible superglue as well.


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by Mr.Gib

Nice one!

No need to carry an inner tube but a decent knife will be required.
wheelsONfire wrote: When we ride disc brakes the whole deal of braking is just like a leaving a fart. It happens and then it's over. Nothing planned and nothing to get nervous for.

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by alcatraz

Do these worms require a needle shaped tool to be used? Can the same tool be used for different thicknesses?

How much does the tool weigh? :)

I've never seen a tire with tread on the side walls. What tire is this?

How long did this repair take to make?

On a clincher and tube maybe two tube patches on the inside of the tire would do the trick.

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Mr.Gib wrote:
Thu Apr 05, 2018 5:53 am
Nice one!

No need to carry an inner tube but a decent knife will be required.

You can ride with DynaPlug tails hanging out, so I doubt you'd have an issue riding with worms hanging out. They are very gummy and easy to smush flat so fork/stay clearance isn't an issue. Once you get home you can cut off the excess.

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Thu Apr 05, 2018 6:02 am

I've never seen a tire with tread on the side walls. What tire is this?

IRC Formula Pro Light/RBCC/X-Guard tubeless. I'm still weary of them after the bead failures dvq and I experienced, and since I've settled on Hutchinson Fusion 5 Galactik/Performance TLR 11Storms, I would need to be thoroughly impressed by a new tire option to switch.

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Alcatraz,

The tool does does sizes of worms. Maxalami and weldite repair kits have the right tool. The weldite kit has just one size of worms and this is a problem.

My repair kit which is 3x 3.5mm x10cm plugs, 5x 1,5mmx5cm worns, the insertion tool in a small tube weighs 27g. I carry a 3g loctite power flex super glue tube. On a long ride especially if I have not topped up the sealant for a while I carry a 60ml pouch of sealant and valve core remover. Overall it all weighs as little as 30g and as much as 110g.

Tomhatesyou the issue you faced does not seem to have reoccurred. So what ever the cause was it probably affected a small number of tyres.

Regardless of the tyre you use. Worms work.

I had to fix my rear IRC roadlite on Monday night with a big worm. It was a 200 mile ride and all I carried in my back pocket was the above. Below is a pic of the tube.


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bm0p700f wrote:
Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:52 am
My repair kit which is 3x 3.5mm x10cm plugs, 5x 1,5mmx5cm worns, the insertion tool in a small tube weighs 27g. I carry a 3g loctite power flex super glue tube.
Nice adaptation of tire tools from auto/truck market. I use the Dynaplug Micro Pro which last month I was able to seal a puncture on one of the wife's tires in under 30-seconds after Orange Seal failed to slow it down, but still carry a spare inner tube and tire boot as Dynaplugs would not do well with the kind of puncture above.
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bm0p700f wrote:A customer dropped in today with a clanger. He caught a sharp pothole and big flint wrong and got a through and through puncture. Still not sure how. The whole was big enough for his finger.

I have said before tubeless fails are user error and a tube is never needed. This rider has gone and proved it. Using 3.5mm and 1.5mm worms he fixed it and carried on his ride. So leave your tubes at home. Even clangers can be fixed.
he used loctite flexible superglue as well.
You should have sold him a new tire instead. That fix doesn't look very safe to me either.

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MikeD wrote:
Thu Apr 05, 2018 3:56 pm
bm0p700f wrote:A customer dropped in today with a clanger. He caught a sharp pothole and big flint wrong and got a through and through puncture. Still not sure how. The whole was big enough for his finger.

I have said before tubeless fails are user error and a tube is never needed. This rider has gone and proved it. Using 3.5mm and 1.5mm worms he fixed it and carried on his ride. So leave your tubes at home. Even clangers can be fixed.
he used loctite flexible superglue as well.
You should have sold him a new tire instead. That fix doesn't look very safe to me either.
This was on the road. Probably no one carrying an inventory of tires and and a cash register. :roll: Let's assume a new tire will be purchased once the guy gets home.
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Mr.Gib wrote:
MikeD wrote:
Thu Apr 05, 2018 3:56 pm
bm0p700f wrote:A customer dropped in today with a clanger. He caught a sharp pothole and big flint wrong and got a through and through puncture. Still not sure how. The whole was big enough for his finger.

I have said before tubeless fails are user error and a tube is never needed. This rider has gone and proved it. Using 3.5mm and 1.5mm worms he fixed it and carried on his ride. So leave your tubes at home. Even clangers can be fixed.
he used loctite flexible superglue as well.
You should have sold him a new tire instead. That fix doesn't look very safe to me either.
This was on the road. Probably no one carrying an inventory of tires and and a cash register. :roll: Let's assume a new tire will be purchased once the guy gets home.
OK. The way you wrote it seemed to imply your shop fixed it.


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Not from Britain... but curious... what's a "clanger"? Is that like a double whammy huge pinch flat? That's what it appears to be, but that would have taken quite a hit to cause that I would think.
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Wish you guys across the pond could easily get dynaplug racers (http://www.dynaplug.com/racer.html) same concept as worms but easier to use and 25ish grams for the whole thing. Although by the looks of this repair, he'd have needed quite few plugs, or a couple mega plugs.

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All Brits of 45 years and older know what a clanger is😂😂😂
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MikeD he did buy a new tyre but he needed to get home first. Also I do say he did the repair not me. I think he was rather rpoud of it. I would have been.

Dynaplugs look like an more expensive way of solving the same problem.

Clanger is slang were I grew up for something that has gone badly wrong.

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bm0p700f wrote:
Thu Apr 05, 2018 7:08 pm
MikeD he did buy a new tyre but he needed to get home first. Also I do say he did the repair not me. I think he was rather rpoud of it. I would have been.

Dynaplugs look like an more expensive way of solving the same problem.
They're more expensive, but far easier to use because of the way the shaft slides back out. I've used both.

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by TimW

You can get dynaplugs in the UK. Fixed my own tubeless tyre today with one in seconds. The other nice thing is that they also do different size plugs from normal to megaplugs for bigger holes.

To me they totally change the argument against tubeless..much faster than installing/changing a tube.

(Just as well as getting tubeless tyres on and off is hard)

I've used worms too. They're fine but harder to get right in my experience.




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