John,
I work part time as a retail/mechanical consultant for a high end bicycle
shop here in Cincinnati. We do not carry them because everyone is going
to glueless patches, which are temporary in my opinion, since the ones
I tried pealed of after about three months. Most of the more traditional
bike
shops will carry "Rema Tip Top Patches". They are cold vulcanizing
and I have some patched tubes that are 15 years old and still the patches
hold. If you can't find them, e-mail me direct and I'll send you some,
I buy them bulk.
>No I haven't. I've been out of the off road game for ten years now,
except for
>local hunting here in the Southwest. Both my current vehicles (28
ft Argosy
>motorhome and Toyota 4Runner toad) have tubeless radials. I do take
the Argosy
>off road quite a bit, but I am careful and so far haven't had a flat.
Flats on
>Toyota frequent, but I carry a spare ... I do have a tendency to take
that thing
>where few other vehicles have ever been ...
>
>Tubeless radials aren't wonderful in cactus country, because even
a tiny hole in
>the sidewall turns the tire into junk. Did I say I was careful?
>
>In Arabia and Africa I had to use what was available, and that was
the Camel
>patches. They worked very well, and in fact that's what most of the
>professional tire shops used too. I've had two failures with them
in 20 years,
>both for the reason you describe, not properly cleaning the work area
before
>patching. In the dark, with the wind blowing and sand in my eyes ...
and I was
>in a hurry and not thinking very well. The usual.
>
>Time to look into this again, I guess. Where do I find those patches?
>
>John
>
>Susi and John Burchard
>Tepe Gawra Salukis
>saluqi@ix.netcom.com