Tuesday, Jun 27, 2006 at 21:18
Thanks for that Peter,
Your comment just jogged my memory about another problem I had with it...
Fellow Boggers: Some tiny bit of the sealer got into the valve stems when I was letting air out... It seems to fragment a bit, a little hodge-pog of gummy material and there is some loose bit in it all, and the valves were always prone to slow leakage after that....
In fact, that is probably why I always put a little "spit on the finger" on top of the valve stems when ever I fill or check tyres, to check for micro leakage. Regardless of whether there was anything in the tyres or not, I have found them leaking once in a while.. So have a spit on the finger as a habit... You Ladies that might find this indelicate DON'T! YOU SHOULD DO IT RELIGIOUSLY, as about one in a hundred times I actually find one blowing bubbles and leaking a little..
Ladies, da Lone Ranger sez: Do it when ever you put air in a tyre.. It could save you a flat tyre on a cold rainy night on a back road. As the tyre is loosing air over a few days it goes lower and increases the chance of a failure, and that will only happen on a dark rainy night on a spooky back road... Just when you do not want to be out there changing a tyre.. Ha!
Regards to the Ladies,
LR, always scouting the trail...
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