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Mar 13, '08 5:56 AM
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Ingredients:

1 x Crossmax front wheel

1 x Schwalbe Racing Ralph

2 x scoops of Stans goo

1 x workshop compressor

Tyre seated at the first attempt and so far it has stayed up. It's siting in the corner of the office and I'm waiting for it to go flat.

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numplumz wrote on Mar 13

The sidewalls of the Ralphs can be a bit pourous for a while, they need to block up with goo. Good test is to mix up some washing up liquid with water to make a lather almost like shaving cream. Then smear it on the tyre sidewall and see if any bubbles appear.
Rotate the wheel in the flat plane on both sides if you get what i mean to distribute the goo on the inner sidewalls.

Welcome to the future.

P.S. I had a little washing machine incident last night.........your cheque never survived...oops

graham2 wrote on Mar 13

muppet

graham2 wrote on Mar 14

Just taken the wheel out of the boot of my car and it's still inflated! Well impressed. Going to do the back one on Monday and then stick them in a bike.

It's going to have to be the Pace - the Turner should be sold by then :O(

troytheboy wrote on Mar 14

come on mr santa cruz , do it!!

numplumz wrote on Mar 17

not everyone is a fan
http://www.paradigmhosting.net/yes_tubes/index.htm

graham2 wrote on Mar 25, edited on Mar 25

Oh dear, the rear one keeps going soft :O(

I might have to try it out for a ride to see how it performs.

bikinggod wrote on Mar 25

Good luck. Pumped a few extra psi into the fixie last night(when it was about minus 1). Got to work in a good time, and placed the bike in the nice warm stores as usual. 3 hrs later there was an almighty bang, and a few worried faces in the office below. The warmer temperature increased the pressure inside the tire enough to blow a 10cm split in the tube........Lesson learned.

graham2 wrote on Mar 25

Silly boy, I knew you weren't paying attention in A level physics.

numplumz wrote on Mar 26

Thats usually down to bad tyre mounting.
Gray - you cant just mount a tyre with latex and leave it, you have to go out on it to slosh it all around so that it fills all the microscopic gaps up.

graham2 wrote on Mar 26

I gave the wheel a good slosh around and tried to coat the inside of the tyre with fluid. I blew it up a spread it around again last night so I will see what has happened when I get home this evening.

numplumz wrote on Mar 26

not enough - needs ridden for 30 mins

bikinggod wrote on Mar 26

That means going out on a mountain bike though. Ain't happenin....says he.

graham2 wrote on Apr 2

Tyre still up - inflatastic!

I have scheduled the maiden voyage for next Tuesday's Plumz ride.

Roll up, roll up - see the silly man get covered in goo.

numplumz wrote on Apr 2

guys
take some sharp things with you.
where can you get a stinger ;-)

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