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Nominate and explain its shortcomings and anything that it actually does as expected.
Top of my list is Muc Off Tubeless Tyre Sealant - is too thick so doesn't spread around the tyres very well so you end up using more than you would if it were Stan's for example.
It does sort of fix punctures.
When it doesn't fix punctures and you fit a tube instead you get pink glue everywhere which is an absolute sod to remove from your wheels, cassette, rotors, hubs, spokes, etc.
Just revolting stuff.
What have you bought and regretted?
This was what I spent my morning doing.
Happy Christmas
EXA SpeedUp dropper post came with a bike I bought in Sept. I've just fitted the 3rd replacement. 1st one would work only occasionally, 2nd one wouldn't stay up, 3rd wouldn't drop. Am I optimistic about no.4? No but hoping to be proved wrong in my opinion
Louise
Canyon VCLS seatpost for gravel bike.
Felt ok on road but just couldn’t get it to stop slipping on rough stuff.
Now buried in the garage somewhere.
Carbon mudguards. Nice idea, awful fittings, much inferior to decent sks at a quarter the price. And they rattled.
Lezyne 1500i ... USB port looked suspiciously weak when I got it, lasted a month before falling off! No support holding it on, just a surface mount PCB component with 2 tiny solder tabs. Awaiting warranty replacement then will do some DIY improvement.
Juice Lubes dry lube - only lasted 5-10miles even in peak of the dry summer and then the chain would start squeaking. It was so thin it was like water.
A subscription to STW.
The "gritty" type of carbon paste.
It's scratches components and works no better than the non grit paste I now use.
I'd extend that to all tubeless sealant. It just doesn't seal anything, I'm beginning to wonder what to point of it is. I even spent a third of a hundred pounds on the Stans Race stuff. I've ended up going to a DH casing rear tire which weighs an absolute ton.
I think the only product I've bought in 5 years I genuinely regretted buying was Uberbike semi-metalic pads this summer but even then I'd bought them in error thinking it was what Uber were calling their Sintered compound.
I tend to ignore fashionable/trend though and stick with stuff I already know works well for me.
What are you puncturing on and why @munrobiker?
Sealant IME is great for thorn punctures, sealing pourous non-tubeless tyres and sealing the bead to the rim. it's not a miracle cure for clumsy riding, ripping proper holes in tyres or running too low pressures and burping, pinching tyre carcus' or ripping single ply tyres at the bead. Nothing ever will be.
Peatys foaming cleaning stuff,overpriced pish
One used cafe latex this year in the tyres. Great to far.👍
Had trouble with stans just going solid in the tyre.....
Birzman Maha push and twist floor pump. No matter how I've tried to make it work, I can't. Replaced the head for another make.
Geex- on my full suspension bike I've had a mix of slashes on rocks and pinches, despite having a Huck Norris. Often the holes are tiny and they just won't seal. But on my hard tail with very flimsy 800g 3 inch tyres I never puncture, despite riding the same trails (Peak District, Lake District, Inners and Glentress off piste). I'm betting think the DT rims I have on the full susser are "sharp", it didn't start happening til I got them.
A subscription to STW.
😂
Any time I hear of someone fitting a huck norris I tend to think to myself you're not running enough pressure in the first place. But yeah some rims are definitely worse for pinching sidewalls than others.
Revelation forks. Even with the compression wound all the way off they spiked horribly on repeated hits, almost to the point they felt like rigid forks. It strikes me as quite suspicious that Rockshox have been pushing 'upgraded' Debonair springs and Charger dampers, almost as though they realise they mucked it up in the first place (if you're interested, I've had to upgrade mine and it makes a hell of a difference).
Endura waterproof shorts probably ok if you ride a couple of times a month but for a ride all weathers type of rider and often they are just so over priced for what they are. Returned and offered a refund which I took and bough some Gore we will see how these fair!
Peatys sealant. Failed to seal most holes and impossible to get off my shorts and backpack. Looks like someone has thrown up over me from behind.... Peatys were very helpful but I should have just moved on.
Bontrager XR3 team tlr tyre. The perfect combination of **** all grip and high rolling resistance. Woo hoo.
Gunz
Member
Revelation forks. Even with the compression wound all the way off they spiked horribly on repeated hits
Do you mean Rebound mate?
WTB Vigilante and Trail Boss tyres, fancied a change from DHF/DHR, heard good things, lasted about a month before I went back to Minions
Gunz
Member
Revelation forks. Even with the compression wound all the way off they spiked horribly on repeated hits
Do you mean Rebound mate?
No, they just didn't seem to compress sufficiently quickly on repeated hits. It might have been them packing down but to be honest I was generally hanging on for dear life at the time so couldn't look down (I did try almost every combination of rebound and compression setting).
Sad to say peatys tire sealant was total bobbins, apart from looking quite nice it didn’t seal up a 29er tyre with even double the volume recommended for a new set up.
Gutted
Even more gutted to read above as I’ve got a litre bottle of muc off sealant to replace the peatys.
The only thing I can remember getting shot of this year was the specialized butcher 2.6.
Just didn't seem to have anywhere near the same grip as a minion, Mary or hr2 - had to keep catching the front as it washed out in dust or slid on roots.
Another for peatys, a bike I bought came with it in and it dried up in both wheels within 2 weeks! Was loosing pressure and found a big dried ball at the bottom of both tyres, never been stored next to a radiator or anything like that.
GX eagle until they updated the jockey wheels to stop the chain coming off them! Write off two mechs in 3 months until the change.
Does Peaty actual hawk anything decent? I’ve noticed him sticking his name on a few things, but I don’t recall any of them being more than average at best.
Cotic Soul Mk5 - good bike just not the right bike for me. What I really needed was/is a carbon short travel FS.
Stand by for me to lose a load of money - Soon to be seen up for sale on here and Pink Bike (Stealth ad).
Sportful super total comfort bib shorts. Which, despite the name, have been the most uncomfortable shorts I have ever owned.A very expensive mistake.
Agree about the Peatys Sealant, so thick and viscous that it doesn't evenly coat the tire, complete garbage that just relies on the name for sales. I did eventually manage to get mines to seal by mixing a bit of Stans in, which says it all really.
Does Peaty actual hawk anything decent? I’ve noticed him sticking his name on a few things, but I don’t recall any of them being more than average at best.
Does seem to be his MO....
Sealant has been universally panned.
There are those weird rubber caps for valves (my mate had them, and they fell off and disappeared first ride).
He helped promote that wooden balance bike on Kickstarter where they ripped off hundreds of backers.
Not a good track record!
One used cafe latex this year in the tyres. Great to far.👍
+1 I’ve got a bit of man love for this stuff, occasionally comes up cheaper than the others and does seem to be pretty good and not too messy.
Got a wide arse. Scrimped and didn't buy a specialised 155mm saddle. Got a narrower one that was on offer. Now have a wide sore arse.
5l if Hutchinson sealant. Seals holes well enough but dries up in about 3 weeks so works out more expensive than stans.
Don't own one but the Specialized Wu dropper post must be the worst idea ever . Take a dropper post which isn't the easiest thing to make and complicate it by making the saddle tilt at the same time for no advantage that I can see .
dudeofdoom
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One used cafe latex this year in the tyres. Great to far.👍+1 I’ve got a bit of man love for this stuff, occasionally comes up cheaper than the others and does seem to be pretty good and not too messy.
Yep, got mine at a good price, much cheaper than Stans when I bought it.👍
Totally unnecessary but they even have an App to tell you how much you need for a given tyre size. I kind of like that as it shows a bit of thought has gone into the product.
a gravel bike. yes i jumped on the marketing bandwaggon and fell for the spiel.
no faster than my rigid mtb, not as comfy or versatile as my tourer.
now sold
Seal skins waterproof socks. They just fill up with water so your feet are swimming. Better off with normal socks where they can at least let water out so it not a footbath!
This Lifeline branded combined pump/co2 valve from wiggle. Thank God I tested it before taking it out on the trails. Leaks co2 from a joint on the connector and is just basically unusable.
Praise Jesus. We could all have lost a good man to that gas leak
Yeah,I possibly should have pointed out that at most it would have left me with having to inflate a tyre with the world's smallest pump if the co2 inflator failed.... rather than making it sound like it would have lead to an instant labotomy or such. Lol
+1 for any sealant other than Stans being pish.
I don't buy anything without *obsessive* internet research first. Hence I've nothing useful to contribute to this thread. 🙂
I bought some "Cookie Dough" flavoured protein bars. They tasted like raw cookie dough, which is much less tasty than I remembers. I tried toasting them hoping they would taste like cookies, but they just tasted like burnt cookie dough. Very effective at curing hunger pangs though.