PatchnRide Promises Simple Flat Repair without Removing the Tire – Even on Tubulars

Forget the patch kit, I want that floor pump. One shove and your tire is full!

Too bad this wouldn’t work with pinch flats…

Count me interested. Not that I get flats often, but when I do it is usually cold, wet, dark, or all of the above. Needs independent reviews…

I don’t know about the product, but it’s one of the best-done Kickstarter videos that I’ve seen. It’s struck that rare balance of information, humor and humility.

This looks WAY too good to be true. I’m not liking the whole making the hole bigger for the tool pin to go in and inject the patch…way to ruin a tire. I don’t know, looks promising, something that “easy” would be great for long road rides. Hope this works.

@duncan I was wondering if had had a shunt or a drain in from an accident, and needed rib padding.

What bag? I saw a nice Serotta. Tooling down the sidewalk with keds.

Man, listen to you guys! For many people, this will work just fine. If you are just simply too hip (really, all the comments about his bag? Get over yourselves sheesh), or too pro, or your typical flat causing mechanism is too small, then cool, don’t buy the product.

I see something that stands to benefit the AVERAGE rider, who patronizes bike shops for gadgets, who cruises around and gets nails in their tires, and who isn’t a pro mechanic and would otherwise have to go to the bike shop to try and fix that flat.

True, it probably wont work for pinch-flats, so that is a good argument.

I’d say 70-90% of flats that I fix at the shop are pinch flats. Can’t see this working with pinch flats, or any other puncture that’s not through the top of the tread.

TBH – fixing a flat tyre is not hard. Using tyre levers, a new tube and some elbow grease is more economical and for someone who’s done a couple, probably faster and with a higher success rate with little potential for re-do’s down the line.

ummmm… im afraid IT IS THE COOLEST JOB IN THE WORLD!!!

@ MattS…from what I see, it won’t work with tubeless…(not to be confused with tubular)…The patch goes inbetween the tire casing & tube…The tube is required for the product to work properly.

Because every flat that I have ever had I could totally see what caused it sticking out of my tire. Oh and wear your bag right…

Wow….The BR ninnies are testy today. I’d buy it just to see if the damn thing really worked. Seems pretty straightforward to me. Ajax is right. This is how your auto tires are fixed at the shop.

Yes, this is about how a flat car tire is fixed but car tires are tubeless and locating the hole in the tire is always the actual hole. That’s not true for tube-type bike tires where the leak in the tube may not be detectable from the tire exterior.

Many years ago I was mtb’ing a trail in Palm Desert. I rode right over a little cactus ball. My suspension fork arch knocked-off the catus ball, but the spines remained. I used a Leatherman to pull the spines out. My tire never flatted. My buddies were astounded. Mr. Tuffy tire liners.
They are kinda heavy, but work as advertised.

http://mrtuffy.com/

Do I get to be the first one to point out he wasn’t wearing a helmet?
yeahhhhh. #wintheinternet
Also, the audio from edited clip to edited clip wasn’t mastered at the same volume.
There.
What else can we pick on and not talk about the actual design of the product?

To all the readers (both positive and skeptical), I too was hesitant when I heard about this. I actually know the creator and when he simply said come to my office and do it yourself and give me your opinion, I was blown away. This product has been many years in the making. It is not a made in China 80 cent piece of you know what. Additionally the entire team are avid cyclists and ironman. They really have it all together. So the best thing we can all do is find out more and try it.

I saw the tool and patch application in person at stage 2 of the Tour of Utah last week. It is well designed and constructed. The tool first injects a bit of glue through the hole over the punctured area of the tube. Then a small patch is pushed through the tire leaving a little stem of rubber sticking out of the hole. The diameter of the patch left inside the tire is around 1cm if I remember correctly. You press down on the puncture for 15 seconds to adhere the patch to the tube and then inflate. Based on the video alone I would be a skeptic. They should more clearly describe the mechanics of the repair and patch. But after seeing it in person the principle is completely sound. It should work brilliantly for tubular tires specifically where you cannot other wise perform a field repair like can be done with clinchers. I like the smooth ride of my carbon tubulars but previously only used them for racing. With this tool it would be perfectly feasible to use tubulars for training as well because flats would no longer be an issue. Yes you can use sealant in tubulars but this tool should have a greater success for a range of puncture sizes. And pinch flats rarely happen with tubulars so no issue there. But for clincher tires it only makes sense for the mechanically challenged or those unwilling to perform field repairs. For $30 I am going to give it a try for when I ride tubulars outside of racing. If it does not work, c’est la vie, I can buy a few less espressos to make up for it. And if it does work a $10 pod is a lot cheaper than a $100 replacement tubular and the labor of gluing it to the rim.

Where can I buy