Wilsons Sandbox

Tumu ran heavy duty tubes with Slime pre-installed on the Alcan rally, loads of high-speed mileage and some rough offroad with no tire-related problems. I would put in the 4mm thick super-heavy-duty tubes. They are harder to pinch when installing, and I've dented rims without getting pinch flats. And they last a long time. Put slime in them for a little extra insurance if you like. Devon A!5 "aaronwalters@..." wrote:

> > I'm planning my first long adventure and am going through the "what- > if" list. One deals with flat tires. I have spare tubes but I've > changed one out before and it wasn't fun. Will slime or fix-a-flat > work in a pinch? >

In a message dated 2003-04-13 11:00:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, aaronwalters@... writes:

> > I'm planning my first long adventure and am going through the "what- > if" list. One deals with flat tires. I have spare tubes but I've > changed one out before and it wasn't fun. Will slime or fix-a-flat > work in a pinch? > >

My own personal observation is that Slime works about 60% of the time. Once use slime, or a similar product the tire can't be patched because its slimed, so if you use slime you better carry spare tubes just in case. If you were to go to my local bike shop five years ago they were selling Slime by the bucket and now it hardly sells but fills the shelf at Harbor Freight. Most the serious dirt biking world have decided its better to patch than use Slime and I am one of those. Pat G'ville, Nv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 imperial-4776@... wrote:

> Slime is a Crime!!!! > >The only problem with Slime, is if it does work, you don't know about it, >so how can gauge it's effectiveness ?

You see the dab of goo leaking out of the thorn hole for the next TWO MONTHS as you continue riding on the tire/tube and adding air once in a while. RM

I never had good luck with slime. the last time I used it was a week ago. My rims looked cool with all the bright green stuff dryed up. I didn't wash it off. gives the KLR more character --- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "aaronwalters@s..." wrote:

> I'm planning my first long adventure and am going through the "what- > if" list. One deals with flat tires. I have spare tubes but I've > changed one out before and it wasn't fun. Will slime or fix-a-

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> work in a pinch?

Mine are all going to get washed at one of them fancy coin-operated places. Mark At 10:18 AM +0000 4/15/03, dooden wrote:

>Mines getting a Sagebrush Doohickey and a Valve job, metal bash plate >to follow, and maybe a JC Whitney truck later on. > >Been looking at the DR steel pegs thread with intent interest also. > >Dooden > >--- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "kcuf_oohay_666" > wrote: >> I think my KLR will get a bash plate and bigger tail box