https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knztv4YFO_Y
This video goes a long way to show how it works and looks
Nick
This video goes a long way to show how it works and looks
Nick
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In addition to carrying the aforementioned repair stuff, I also carry Ride On tire sealant. I have yet to use it, but the company videos are pretty compelling about how well it works. FYI, you need to carry a valve stem remover also.
Never heard of “bacon strips” but I would never plug a tire using the kit or technique shown in the video. First, because they are reaming the hole to enlarge it, and second because unless the lube they are using is rubber cement the plug has a high likelihood of coming back out.
I have used the oval rubber plugs and tool that BMW used to include with the bikes. They were horrible—the reamer was like a small rat-tail file ready to cut cords in the tire body, and the plugs too big to be easily inserted.
I have used the rubber mushroom plug kits—very difficult to use, require lubrication, and prone to coming out. Expensive, too.
The only repair kits I carry on the bikes anymore are the Nealey kits (https://www.nealeytirerepairkit.com/). Reasons for that are:
1. Inexpensive and neatly packaged
2. Easy to use- no reaming needed, only an insertion and wiggling of the unloaded insertion tool.
3. These are the only kits that use a closed-end tool, so the string is inserted, twisted a turn and a half to form a ball, then the string is withdrawn back through the hole. That means 4 thicknesses of the string in the hole and a ball end that won’t come out and can’t untwist because the string has been pulled back through, essentially creating a knot. Their website explains it best.
I find these kits the fastest and most effective plugs I’ve used. Here’s an inside and outside photo of a tire I recently plugged then rode for over 700 miles before removing and properly patching:
Once home, my intent was to plug the tire from the inside using the only type of plug that Michelin recognizes as a valid repair on a tubeless tire, but the Nealey plug did not want to come out so I cut flush the ball on the inside and applied a conventional tire patch.
I have absolutely no connection to, nor financial interest in, the Nealey company. I just really, really like their kits as a fast and effective roadside repair.
Best,
DeVern
Thanks for the review and the link to the "new management" Nealey company.
I initially believed these reviews back in November, 2019 and ordered a kit.
It turned out to be THE most unresponsive order I'd ever placed in my life. E-mails never returned, phone calls never answered, product never shipped. In spite of the fact Paypal was the way I had sent them my money (only way I believe?) I never pursued getting it back, I just plain wrote them off as a bad business. It was just $20 so live and learn. Even the Paypal receipt had a bogus phone number for them that ended with a double zero. Anybody else have a failed order back in that time frame?
Seeing something has changed, I think I'll ring the "new management" up and see if they will honor my order from back then. Might even try a second order if not. People seem to think theirs is it's the best "bacon strips".
Thanks for the review and the link to the "new management" Nealey company.
I initially believed these reviews back in November, 2019 and ordered a kit.
It turned out to be THE most unresponsive order I'd ever placed in my life. E-mails never returned, phone calls never answered, product never shipped. In spite of the fact Paypal was the way I had sent them my money (only way I believe?) I never pursued getting it back, I just plain wrote them off as a bad business. It was just $20 so live and learn. Even the Paypal receipt had a bogus phone number for them that ended with a double zero. Anybody else have a failed order back in that time frame?
Seeing something has changed, I think I'll ring the "new management" up and see if they will honor my order from back then. Might even try a second order if not. People seem to think theirs is it's the best "bacon strips".
Looked it up, my last kit was ordered October 10, 2019. Arrived about three weeks later, no issues. I think Nealey was just selling these as part-time income. The repair strings and tools are from Chemi Cure, which apparently sells them to repair shops. Nealey was just repackaging them in smaller quantities for individuals. A Google search for Chemi Cure will find several companies that can provide the strings, but they are usually in packages of 80 or more. I hope to never need that many plugs.
I've only used two Nealey strings, both installed easily and are still holding air. Unlike the dozen or so other sticky strings I've used, no worries about dried out tubes of cement and no mess. The kit and my Slime pump live on the bike except when we take a long road trip by car - we have spare tires and AAA for any local flats.