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3.0 out of 5 starsVery Sticky
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2017
I have tried this product several times now and dropped my rating to three stars. This is still a good product, it needs better directions for success. Certain conditions for success. The product must be warm, both the bicycle inner tube and the patch. I put it on a cold tube, maybe fifty degrees from the garage, the patch was room temperature in the winter so sixty something. One small pierced hole maybe a millimeter in width. I put the patched on as directed, put the wheel back together and the patch didn't hold. I took a new patch, heated the tube up with a hair drier and the patch too until it was tacky, so heat at your own discretion. The repaired tire took eighty pounds fine. So the product might not be a good fix for a cold ride in the fall or sometime other then summertime.
This is the old review. Wow, somebody finally used their brain to engineer an awesome product. I thought, how good can this product be, it is a sticker, I have used other products that appeared the same. This product is not the same. The patch material is very soft and pliable material and conforms to the surface and the adhesive is extremely sticky. It is really going to bug me if they cheapen this product, I will quit buying it. I am going to buy more and I haven't got a need. I used it to patch a water bed and it stuck better than anything I have tried. I have not used it on bicycle tires. I have used the VP-1 Product from Park Tool to patch rubber tubes and it is a great product, it works poorly on vinyl floats, mostly because roughing up vinyl with sand paper tends to compromise the vinyl. Rubber is thick enough to take a good sandpapering. This product seems to work better on vinyl better than anything I have tried.