Got a screw in my rear tire the other day, which I had just replaced cause my last one got a huge nail in it when the tire still had at least 6 months of riding left on it. This tire is less than a month old, so I wasn't about to just drop another $230 to replace it again. But it was a challenge to find any decent reviews on options I could use to patch it up by other motorcyclists. Most, with no first-hand experience just said "Don't do it!!" So I suppose I've put my life at risk, for you, to truly put this product to the test under real motorcycle riding conditions. (Don't try this at home, I was VERY careful about monitoring the condition of the tire at all times during my testing)
I ride a 2003 Honda CBR 600 F4i, this bike is my daily driver. I ride it at least 30 miles round-trip to and from work every weekday. The screw was about an inch long, not very big, maybe a drywall screw. It was right in the groove of the tread so it had even less area for the Slime to work its magic in(I assume it would work better if it had the entire depth of the carcass to work into). When I twisted it out I heard a slow leak, put about 1/3 the bottle of Slime into the tire and rolled it around for a bit; leak seemed to stop. Next morning the tire is still inflated, no audible leaking, so I rode to work at a moderate pace, mindful of the feel of the rear tire. By the end of the work day the tire had flattened. The puncture is a couple inches to the right of the center of the tire, so I figured the Slime may have settled away from it and now air was escaping. So I put the remaining 2/3 of the Slime in, pumped it up and rode very slowly leaning the bike as far as I could over to the right to spread the Slime out on that side. The tire was at about 25 psi(41 is recommended under normal conditions for this tire) and it stayed that way for the next couple days. Now keep in mind this is a very small puncture, even with no Slime it didn't leak out incredibly fast. I had used Slime once before when an older 750 I had got a cut in the rear tire and the Slime just sprayed right out of the tire as I rode it. Okay, back to the story: So it's been a couple days, no loss in pressure, so last night I decide it's time to see if it can hold the full 41 psi and some real centrifugal force from riding at highway speeds. So I filled up the tires at the gas station near work, cleaned off a spot under the seat so I'd see if any slime sprayed out of the tire, and headed to school about a 20 minute ride away. Most of it was on the highway, I did some hard accelerating, got up just over 90mph, and a couple times got some decent lean angles. When I got to school and parked it, the bead of Slime was no longer showing coming out of the puncture and I could hear a slow leak, but it didn't look like Slime sprayed all over the undertail of my bike. By the time I got out of class the pressure had dropped back down to 25psi or so and stayed that way overnight and got me to work again this morning.
So my conclusion, under these circumstances, is that this product works amazing. It's not a permanent solution for a street bike, even with a puncture so mild as mine, but it's possible to get you by for at least a few days until you can figure something else out. Which is exactly what I plan to do, cause I still don't want to buy a brand new $230 tire. So my next review will be the Slime Tire Plugger kit, which I already received. I'll probably put one of those in within the next few days.Get more detail about
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