Ride-On Tire sealer and balancer

[MrSchaeferPants]

Think slime, but not slime. Think the sealing properties like slime, mixed with dyna beads, without the mess of slime. All in all, it looks like a tire sealer product I'd actually use, unlike slime. Only thing I ever put slime in was "roller" tires, and a riding lawnmower tire once.

http://www.ride-on.com/

And this video I guess just shows what its like replacing a tire with the product in it.

 

[Blue85]

I would be skeptical, but since it's

a distinctive, cheerful shade of orange

how can you go wrong? What does it cost?

I assume you won't use Slime because of the terrible mess and general hatred from the tire shop? The kids bike tires always end up with Slime in them sooner or later. I have it in some mower tires, too, but never something for the street.

 

[MrSchaeferPants]

I would be skeptical, but since it's how can you go wrong? What does it cost?

I assume you won't use Slime because of the terrible mess and general hatred from the tire shop? The kids bike tires always end up with Slime in them sooner or later. I have it in some mower tires, too, but never something for the street.

Yeah I'm not saying its a miracle product, I know about as much as you now, just from watching videos and reading the website. But, I feel its a step up above slime. Quickly looking up cost- expensive. But all 'newer' things are. Slime is pretty cheap these days, even dyna beads are costly, considering what they are and how much you use. And who knows, has slime changed their product over the years? Hell my wife's new Elantra didn't even come with a spare, it came with slime! No kidding. I hate it.

Just a keep in the back of your mind product. Thought about putting some in my truck cause I don't care about that thing, to test for my bike. But after seeing the cost.... maybe not. $29 to do the bike. $130'ish for the truck.

Of course, found this on one of my motorcycle forums. I think for the average person it has more of a place there, you definitely don't want a puncture and a low-to-flat tire on two wheels. $30 is certainly worth preventing an accident. If its as good as the videos show.

For the average person, $130 of this stuff for a DD... that's a lot of plugs and patches, and depending, a new tire for that cost. But I guess if you for instance, don't ever have to plug a tire for 50-60k miles (or balance, weights falling off, etc), and replace them cause its worn... well.... maybe?

 

[Deuling]

How do you put it in? Is it a DIY, or something a dealer sprays in?

 

[MrSchaeferPants]

How do you put it in? Is it a DIY, or something a dealer sprays in?

You put it in like slime pretty much. Remove the valve stem, dump a specified amount per tire size. Like slime, make sure the valve stem is between 3 and 9 so it doesn't drip on the rim when filling. So its a DIY, apprently that perfect coverage look in the videos, is just the gel stuff naturally spreading from driving.

There's a calculator on the website (prolly comes with the product too). A 12x33xr15 takes 26oz per tire. Then a different video I watched, had a 5 gallon bucket with pump. The pump has a ring around the pump shaft with a set screw, with the shaft of the pump marked in OZ, you slide the ring to the OZ you wanna fill, set the set screw, and one pump is that many OZ. Guess if you wanted to do everything you owned and ponied up for the 5gal bucket. Otherwise with those 16oz bottles you're sorta guessing, and if you squeeze it in with the bottles, how do you get it all?

 

[Deuling]

Hard to believe it would go in that perfect, and not leave a film all over the tire where it initially touched.


Interesting none the less.

 

[MrSchaeferPants]

Hard to believe it would go in that perfect, and not leave a film all over the tire where it initially touched.


Interesting none the less.

Well if you look in one of those videos, you can see a slight (and I mean slight) film up to an inch away from the gel. Almost like if you licked your finger and wiped the tire. Then the part where the guy slides his finger across the gel, it does wipe off. It does say its permanently liquidy/gel, and since its supposed to balance, I guess the faster/slower you go, that 'strip' would probably widen/narrow as being used.

Just a guess.