Buyer's guide to the best puncture repair kits Glue or glueless? As with the others on test you must ensure that the tyre is prepared well and is clean for the best adhesion to occur.Īs the Lezyne kit has both a tyre boot and inner tube patches, both of which are the match for anything on test, it comes highly recommended. It was reassuringly sticky and stayed in place for the ride. 50mm x 30mm and it applied to the tyre well. The Lezyne Smart kit (inner tube repair mentioned above) also includes a tyre repair patch. I used a Clean Streak aerosol cleaner which worked well and all 3 patches stayed put during the test. If you have any tubeless sealant inside the tyre carcass it must be thoroughly cleaned off first as the glue won't stick otherwise. They are applied inside the tyre between the tyre and inner tube (if used) and can stop that hole or slash from allowing other road debris into the tyre causing further problems. Sometimes the body of the tyre gets a hole which needs fixing to get you home, and this is where a tyre boot can help out.

So it did get me home, but would've probably needed another repair to keep reliable. The central section (over the hole) had though. The patch held pressure throughout the test but on checking the inner tube afterwards the edges of the patch hadn't stayed glued. I needed to roll the patch around the tube to get it to stick on fully. This gives more glued area to contact with however, on a narrow 20-28mm width road inner tube, the patch overhung the tube edges. The Rehook Gooeys patches came in a pack that was very similar in size and weight to the Park GP-2's and they were the largest square patches on test (just) measuring 26mmx26mm.

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