[Closed] Peaty's Sealant...

I like the idea of Peaty working with a team of scientists.

Stella idea.

I genuinely thought that was a pisstake and it would be made using beer or something. Interesting if the claims are true, may have to give it a try...

wonder if he fills the bottles of jizz himself? theu've missed a trick there - 'peaty's jizz' sounds much better! 😛 😯 😐

Considering he already supplies valve covers that look like the end of a bell, I would have thought Jekkyl's suggestion would have been the obvious one.

Given how well stans works I'm not sure what it will do better

If it really can avoid drying up, and is also biodegradable, then I'll get some (if I can figure out where to buy it from).

Given that the last bicycle related endeavour he endorsed ending up ripping off hundreds of people and scamming £60,000 odd. Then I'm oot.

Ajantom- what was that?

One of his colleagues is posting replies in the comments on PB.
Someone asked whether it would really last 18 months without drying out, he replies that they change tyres every three months.....

Does it really never dry out, or in theory never dry out? If it's the former, that would be great.

Ajantom- what was that?

The ZumZum balance bike on Kickstarter.
Peat endorsed it, it even got a mention on this site. It hit its targets on Kickstarter, then a lot of lies and dissembling, no bikes sent out and 400 odd people were each £100+ down.
Peat washed his hands of it, and Kickstarter refused to even look into it.
A massive con, pure and simple, and in my eyes he was tarnished by it.

jekkyl - Member

wonder if he fills the bottles of jizz himself? theu've missed a trick there - 'peaty's jizz' sounds much better!

His last product was a really tiny buttplug so...

Is the implication that Peaty was complicit and benefited from the failed kickstarter? Or was he duped like the investors?

I dont know anything about the story but have respect for peaty, although accept he is keen for a money making opportunity, i don't think he would knowingly con people out of money. Theres a difference between overpriced stem caps and fraud i think!

Is the implication that Peaty was complicit and benefited from the failed kickstarter? Or was he duped like the investors?

I don't think he was complicit. However, I suspect he would have been paid for his endorsement, and when things went tits up he washed his hands of it pretty quickly.
Bad choice on his part, but the alacrity with which he got out of Dodge does him little credit in my eyes.
This of course is all IMO, but I'll not readily support any of his ventures in future.

Does it really never dry out, or in theory never dry out? If it's the former, that would be great.

The thing is it [i]has[/i] to dry out. There's no special magic happening in a tyre. The sealant reacts with the air in the tyre, and tyres remain porous at a microscopic level so they dry out as some of the more volatile components of the sealant evaporate through the sidewalls. Thats just the way it is. I have some 'prototype' sealant from a manufacturer, which claims the same, but the issue is that it never dries out, inside or outside the tyre. The little blue bits will seal a hole for a while, but while you ride they become dislodged and unseal, and so the whole process starts again - its amazing as long as you own a pump and don't mind using it.

Im not saying that Peaty's sealant is bad, just that I'd [i]want[/i] my sealant to dry out over time.

I've got stans sealant in my xc front wheel which is over 18 months old and still sloshing lots. Stick some blue glitter in and boom, there we have it, Peaty's special sealant.

Stans seems more than adequate..

Not sure the advent of sparkly blue glittery jizz is going to make that of an improvement?

I've used Stan's before & currently have Joe's in both tyres, so unless Peaty's is cheaper, why change? (unless it's all I can get at a moments notice which why I have Joe's & not Stan's)

Looks like the a watered down version of the tractor sealant from Mole Valley Farmers with glittery bits.

oldracer - Member

Not sure the advent of sparkly blue glittery jizz is going to make that of an improvement?

I can't remember who suggested it but I started putting glitter in my stans sealant, for porous/hard to seal tyres, it really does make a difference (as far as I can tell it makes no difference with better-sealing tyres, but maybe it helps with holes). Only downside is you end up covered in sparkly vampire jizz when you change a tyre

Bump.

How's your experience of this stuff then? Bought a pouch and it wasn't staying up very well, added the rest of the pouch and it's clear the recommendation of half a pouch per tyre is just wrong as plenty of teeny fissures started bubbling happily - seems fine now. (2nd hand Hans Dampfs, 650b 2.35")

Question is whether to get a litre of same or go for stans for the front

I’m my experience biodegradable usually means crap.

I've just built a wheel for someone who gave me Peatys jizz to seal his new tyre, pain on the arse, never had a a problem sealing tyres before it's way too thick, therefore does not get to the air escapes quickly enough. Needed two pouches to seal a 27.5 x 2.4 and it was still a pain.

Stick to Stans!

I've just built a wheel for someone who gave me Peatys jizz to seal his new tyre, pain in the arse, never had a a problem sealing tyres before it's way too thick, therefore does not get to the air escapes quickly enough. Needed two pouches to seal a 27.5 x 2.4 and it was still a pain.

Stick to Stans!