This is a story that also comes to us from skinnyg214. I am always fascinated by gadgets and the PatchNride is a pretty cool idea. You fix a flat by pinching a section of the tire and injecting a patch utilizing what we would call in medicine an autoinjector. I would be pretty reluctant to do this with a road tire because in my experience even the smallest penetrating damage to a road tire leaves a spot that wears out pretty quickly. Plus most people that have repaired a thousand flat tires don’t have a big problem fixing flats the old fashioned way. On the other hand, think of the people who hate to change flats. Think of the times like Lotoja (assuming you are not running tubulars or tubeless) when you might be a long way from support and time is of the essence in making a repair. If this thing works as advertized, it could come in pretty handy.
I had one more thought about this which kind of puts it in perspective. Most of the flats I have dealt with lately have been things like pinch flats on railroad crossings and torn valve stems. The only repair in that situation is to replace the tube. As clever as PatchNride is, it is specific to one type of a very wide variety of possible causes of a flat tire.
I had one more thought about this which kind of puts it in perspective. Most of the flats I have dealt with lately have been things like pinch flats on railroad crossings and torn valve stems. The only repair in that situation is to replace the tube. As clever as PatchNride is, it is specific to one type of a very wide variety of possible causes of a flat tire.
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