RVers Retaining Air Because of Slime
RVers have a love affair going on with bikes. Many RVers carry them around even though they never ride them. They just like knowing they’re there because you never know when they might come in handy. 
For those of you who are serious riders here is a tip – stay away from goat heads and nails!
If you can’t do that then you need to fill your tubes with Slime! That’s right, Slime! Read more about it at their website: Slime
You can purchase Slime at hardware stores, WalMart, Kmart and most sporting goods stores.
Slime repairs punctures to the bike inner-tube by filling the hole with a sealant automatically as you ride. You won’t even notice you had a puncture. It works repeatedly, so you can accidentally ride through a patch of stickers and not have to push your bike home. It's non-toxic and lasts two years.
Remove the valve stem with the valve stem remover that is part of the cap that comes on the bottle of Slime. Insert and twist counterclockwise to remove.
Attach the plastic tube (that comes with the bottle) to the Slime bottle and the tube stem. Squeeze the bottle and fill with the recommended amount of Slime and replace the valve stem. 
Inflate the tube to the recommended air pressure and take her for a ride or just put it back on the carrier rack. 
Slime isn’t just for bicycles anymore. Off road enthusiasts use it in their quads and motorcycles. It’s also useful in lawn and garden equipment, but I don’t see much of that kind of stuff strapped to RV ladders. Jim
For those of you who are serious riders here is a tip – stay away from goat heads and nails!If you can’t do that then you need to fill your tubes with Slime! That’s right, Slime! Read more about it at their website: Slime
You can purchase Slime at hardware stores, WalMart, Kmart and most sporting goods stores.
Slime repairs punctures to the bike inner-tube by filling the hole with a sealant automatically as you ride. You won’t even notice you had a puncture. It works repeatedly, so you can accidentally ride through a patch of stickers and not have to push your bike home. It's non-toxic and lasts two years.
Remove the valve stem with the valve stem remover that is part of the cap that comes on the bottle of Slime. Insert and twist counterclockwise to remove.
Attach the plastic tube (that comes with the bottle) to the Slime bottle and the tube stem. Squeeze the bottle and fill with the recommended amount of Slime and replace the valve stem. Inflate the tube to the recommended air pressure and take her for a ride or just put it back on the carrier rack. Slime isn’t just for bicycles anymore. Off road enthusiasts use it in their quads and motorcycles. It’s also useful in lawn and garden equipment, but I don’t see much of that kind of stuff strapped to RV ladders. JimLabels: Hobbies
posted by Jim Twamley at
4/11/2007 04:57:00 PM
3 Comments:
This stuff does work. Tire punctures from sand burs and other sources else are quickly sealed, BUT, it is a colossal nuisance and not worth the bother mainly because it also clogs up most tire gauges, no matter what orientation you set the stem when checking pressure. Even if the stem is vertical (at bottom of the wheel), enough residual Slime hangs in the stem to blow into the gauge along with the tire air. Eventually the slime will dry out/solidify to render the gauge useless and unreliable. I haven't figured out a way to avoid this nor a way to clean out the gauge :-/ To solve the dilemma, I simply installed new inner tubes to get rid of the problems(I don't know of a way to flush out the Slime)-it is a great product and does what the maker claims it will do (the above caveats are not included on the label or in the instructions), but, in my experience, it not worth the collateral hassles, frankly. Thanks for putting up the original review of this product.
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Anonymous, at April 14, 2007 7:46:00 AM PDT
Anonymous is right about the downside to Slime. When I was a kid, before slime was invented, we had to deal with goat head thorns. We learned to cut an old inner tube around the inner circumference to make a cover to go inside the tire around the tube. Today I use Tuffy's, although they can cause pinch flats.
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Anonymous, at April 14, 2007 9:15:00 AM PDT
I havent used the product but have heard many great things about it. I do want to point out, before people out there run off to buy it, " IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR HIGHWAY USE" I belive the reson for this is possibly unbalancing the tires.
I just had to throw that out there.
The product can be foud at Wal-Mart, & Harbor Freight Tools, but is a bit pricy.
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Anonymous, at April 14, 2007 3:36:00 PM PDT
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