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Hi all, as per title, fitted a brand new tyre and punctured it and had to repair it with a poo stick. The hole is in the main tread area and tyre has stayed up so far.
Will it be ok to continue to use on natural trails with lots of knarrrr lol
Pop the tyre off, trim off the inside bit of the anchovy and fit a tubeless repair patch. Jobs a good un.
Or just leave it there. Did one ages ago and it was fine, tyre eventually failed at the sidewall instead.
If a poo stick is anything like a sticky worm then I have been testing this for you over the past three weeks and it is holding up fine so far. I am so lazy I will not take any further action until the earlier of the tyre going down or wearing out.
I use mackerel.
Think my record was about 5 anchovies in a tyre. Fit and forget
I always leave them in. Only had one fail and I repaired it with two doubled up.
They've been so effective I've bought a red plastic screw in variant for the car which hopefully will save messing about with the tyre sealant to get to a tyre shop.
Yeah just leave it alone. I usually trim it down from the outside to avoid the possibility it could catch on something.
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CaptainFlashheart - MemberI use mackerel.
We use paper like everyone else.
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Majority verdict when I asked was yes.
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/do-you-consider-tubeless-tyre-plug-repairs-as-permanent
They've been so effective I've bought a red plastic screw in variant for the car which hopefully will save messing about with the tyre sealant to get to a tyre shop.
I use a bigger version on my motorcycle and car tyres and treat them as fit and forget. All previously have outlasted the tyre, one is in a rear tyre right now. I wouldn't recommend others do the same but they sure are effective.