Ultraseal - opinions ?

Having seen off the erstwhile spammer, this prompted me to enquire if
anybody here actually DOES use the stuff ? My inexperienced instincts
suggest "snake oil" but does anyone have any hands-on, so to speak, comments
?

 

Never even heard of it. Mind you, I have clean fingernails.

 

Also, does anyone know how much liability insurance the manufacturers
and retailers of these products carry? I assume at some point they must
have failed and injured or killed someone.

 

Bear said:

Bridgestone and others do - for their huge tyres fitted to quarry
machinery etc.

 

Bear said:

You could have just posted a 1. I'd have known what 'joke' you meant
then...

 

Bear said:

Could go either way at the moment... It'll be a relief when it's
finished.

 

Bear said:

S

 

Probably, but I'm a) Lazy and b) Clueless, so Tyre-weld will do for me

 

Lack of desperation.

 

Your fecking what?

 

"Bear"

I have a quick look around the rubber bands most times out.

 

In

The 6 odd wings that I travelled with on the tunnel all had it in and swore
by it.
So it's ok for wings.

 

So it deflects nails, broken glass, and other sharp objects?

Twat.

 

You're not wrong

I look at the oil level too and a general sanity check

 

Consider the time required to effect a repair to a damaged tyre, and
you'll see why.

Unless they had 1800s, which are a piece of piss to change the wheel
on.

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| ___ Salad Dodger
|/ \ GL1500SEV/CBR1100XXX/KH500A8/TS250C/exTS185C
_/_____\_ ..58320../..13655.../..3157./.19406/.fecked.
|_\_____/_| IMC#4 TPPFATUICG#7 YTC#4 DIAABTCOD#9 PM#5
(>|_|_|<) BOTAFOT #70 two#11 Ignoramus #0001
|__|_|__| BOTAFOF #09 IbW#0 & KotIbW# OSOS#07
\ |^| / WG* BotTOS #6 GP#4 ANORAK#17
\|^|/ 2003 RBR landmarks:99 points:2100 miles:8000
'^'

 

Oh ffs. Okay, I'll re-phrase it for the terminally pedantic. I've never
had a deflation as a result of a puncture in a Slimed tube.

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Preston.

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They all had 1800's but they all raved about Ultraseal.
It was like a QVC ad the way they dropped it into the conversation.
I thought I was part of the Truman show!

 

I'm not arguing with you bvecause I happen to think US is crap, or any
good, or even God's Gift. I'm arguing with you because you're a twat and
it must be done.

And you appear to know just enough about bikes to make your scanty
learning a dangerous thing.

 

This tyre gunge has been around, in one form or another, for decades.

It *can* stop catastrophic blow-outs on tubed tyres, but on modern
tubeless tyres it's a bit of a waste of time, effort, and it has several
*very* questionable safety points (one of which is wheel balance, but
I'll leave that for another day).

I've talked about it with several tyre manufacturers, and *none*
recommends its use, although (as ever) a certain amount of CYA comes
into play here.

Unfortunately it appeals to the less mechanically-minded types (the sort
who tend to fit those little tyre pressure indicators on their valve
stems), and like all people who know very little, but just enough to
make them think they know lots, they extol its benefits.

All it is is pre-applied Finilec, or Tyre Weld, when all is said and
done and pre-fixing a puncture.... well, the old adage: "If it ain't
broke, don't fix it," comes to mind.

 

What? Finally a sensible, infomative answer? You must be slipping
Neil.