You really must know about Stan's. It is a foaming sealant that was developed for tubeless tires, and differs from the Slime type of sealant in requiring far less and on the principle by which it works (don't know what that principle is, but it ain't small clogging particles in a mass of, well, slime. I also understand that Slime has updated its formula to more closely match the performance of rivals like True Goo. Still!)
You add about 1 fluid oz to a road tube -- compared to about a heckofalot more of the Slime type sealant. All the LBS tubular (roadie) and tubeless (MTB) users say it has "solved the goathead issue". For me, at any rate, while I was getting a flat every 10-15 miles on the Parigi Roubaix pre-Stan's, it's been almost 200 miles sans flat, post-Stan's. You can buy it in small, 2 oz bottles for about $3, or buy a pint for much less per unit. The little bottles are easy to carry with your repair kit. Stan's is meant to be put in tubes with removable valve cores, but I've added it to non-rem-core Prestas by simply forcing the locknut off and holding the core at the top of the tube when it drops out of the valve stem. (Force the locknut back on with a pair of pliers.) The downside, I hear tell, is that it slowly dries up into dessicated little rubber balls or, as someone else posted, "octopuses". They tell me that I should expect to have to add more in about 3 months. So, worst case -- if you don't want little rubber marbles or octopuses in your tube -- you toss your tube and replace with a new one with new Stan's every few months. Me, I'll add another oz proactively in about a month or so. FWIW, I ride my Kojaks -- nice road tires, if not as nice as the P-Rs -- without Stans and without Tire Savers, and they don't flat more than once every 50-100 miles or so. (Ditto, oddly, with the Michelin Pro Race 3s on the gofast.) But the P-R were deadly for goathead flats. On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Michael Hechmer <[email protected]> wrote: > Pardon my ignorance, but I have just read this thread and don't know what > Stan's is. I am hoping to ride in NM, next April, so need to know this > stuff. > > Michael > > -- http://resumespecialties.com/index.html [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Albuquerque, NM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
