Puncture kit for narrow road tyres?

Garry71

Can anyone recommend a brand of puncture kit with patches flexible enough to mate to a road inner tube?
I had 3 punctures in the same spot today, and my crappy chinese patches wouldn't bend properly and kept coming off. Then my 2 chinese tyre levers broke.
Then a load of suits turned up at work to look at their nice new building and wanted to know why there was a broken down bike spread all round their plant room.

The puncture repair aerosol can was a waste of time. At least it shows where the holes are!

Thanks
Garry

Anonymous

Just take a new tube.10 times easier and theyre so cheap its not even worth messing about with them. If you are after patches though then theres the tip top ones. Decent enough.

Garry71

Thanks Andy. New tube fitted the next morning, after breaking another new tyre lever (American this time) :roll:

Garry

willbevan

i like the park tools super patches

I carry two spare tubes, and patches after em... 4 punctures in 4 miles (nothing for the first 20miles), and they wernt pinch punctures, each was a big thorn, or the last, a massive peice of glass (not sure why i didn't see it on the road), but made the most impressive sound

oldwelshman

I always take two tubes, then if I puncture, if it is quite new, repair it when I get home. I use the halford kit as the rubber compound is good. When I run out of the small patches I just cut up the bigger ones.