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  • Best way to mend a tyre?
  • rob-jackson
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    1st rid eout on anew high roller (2.35 folding 60a to be precise), 9 miles in a 30mm long spike of brick goes straight in the tread. 5-7mm square hole in the tread now!!

    How do i BEST repair it?

    matthew_h
    Free Member

    Velox tubeless patch kit might do it.

    rob-jackson
    Free Member

    are they thicker than standard patches? The hole isn’t big enough to bulge i don’t think

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    no but they don’t stretch.

    You could try a Panaracer style tubeless repair.

    rob-jackson
    Free Member

    tried a push thru style string but the hole is too big

    mrdestructo
    Full Member

    How far are you wanting to ride on the tyre? When it comes down to not fussing about rotational weight issues there is one way, but you’re not gonna like it.

    Cut out a section of toothpaste tube, stick a larger piece of gaffa tape over it, apply to inside of tyre. Pumped up tube should hold it in place a while. It’s not a permanent solution mind.

    It’s really an emergency job though, on the trails. We used to carry pieces in our rucksacks to do the job. I’m not even going to go down the car seat belt route here.

    hungrymonkey
    Free Member

    i used the toothpaste tube trick for about a year in one tyre – didn’t even gaffa tape it in – the inflated innertube meant it didn’t move…

    HantsNightRider
    Free Member

    make a patch from sidewall of an old tyre
    super glue to the inside of the tyre

    Speshpaul
    Full Member

    toothpaste tube…..thats so eighties, its plastic milk bottle now:-)

    The-Duke
    Full Member

    I’ve mended a tyre using a needle and some dental floss to stitch it back together and then a tubeless patch on the inside. Been fine ever since even running tubeless

    neilnevill
    Free Member

    maxxis high roller you say? first ride out you say? bit like this you think? (this was actually a minion but well…)

    well I did this first with dental floss

    then got a bit of old tyre and uses Evostick contact adhesive to glue it as a patch on the inside

    worked fine. the dental floss probably wasn’t needed, it started to get cut on rocks/pull out very quickly…but then it did get 3 weeks in Pheonix and Sedona straight after the repair…tough on sidewalls.

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