From experience, you notice the warning light on the dash through peripheral vision - you don't need to be looking at the clocks to notice it when it comes on. I managed for 30+ years without them, but if you read what people are saying in this thread, they're not essential but can make life much easier in some situations.
Puncture and Tyre pressure sensors
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From experience, you notice the warning light on the dash through peripheral vision - you don't need to be looking at the clocks to notice it when it comes on. I managed for 30+ years without them, but if you read what people are saying in this thread, they're not essential but can make life much easier in some situations.
I remember being in morocco with 8 other bikes.. Only one bike had the gloopy tyre sealant in both his wheels.
Guess who was the only bike to suffer a puncture... and not just the once, but twice.
Oh how we laughed. And laughed. And still laugh today...
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Guess who was the only bike to suffer a puncture... and not just the once, but twice.
Oh how we laughed. And laughed. And still laugh today...
.Bendy toy
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My rear tyre did 8K with two nails knocked in by the road and later pulled out with pliers. No air leaks, no hassle and no stress. All for a £20 bottle of goop that did both tyres. I asked my tyre fitter about the need for a patch before I pulled out the first nail. He said pull it out and ride away. Come back & see me when your tyre is worn out.
Bmgsrider
Whataboutyee.
They have faith in their product, states not intended for automotive use. What's that all about?
Let's remember a few things.
TPS is only an indicator and cannot substitute for accurate tyre pressure measurement - anyway, if it's only a bit out you have no safety problems riding normally. If your tyre is going below "rideable" standards, you should feel it any anyway...shouldn't you?
Gloop is "gloop" and messes everything up - especially as it can temporarily mask a tyre problem which might hit you later! (apart from the cr*p it leaves everywhere inside your tyre, valve, etc)
Just carry a good repair kit (e.g. Stop & Go - which I don't like, or Craftyplugger "rats tails" which are brilliant) and a mini-compressor (Stop & Go's is absolutely ace), but forget the CO2 cylinder kits which are a pain in the a**e when they don't explode as they should, and even if they do, if you haven't got the hole plugged properly and have to re-do, then you are stuffed if you have run out of cylinders.
Rant over
TPS is only an indicator and cannot substitute for accurate tyre pressure measurement - anyway, if it's only a bit out you have no safety problems riding normally. If your tyre is going below "rideable" standards, you should feel it any anyway...shouldn't you?
Gloop is "gloop" and messes everything up - especially as it can temporarily mask a tyre problem which might hit you later! (apart from the cr*p it leaves everywhere inside your tyre, valve, etc)
Just carry a good repair kit (e.g. Stop & Go - which I don't like, or Craftyplugger "rats tails" which are brilliant) and a mini-compressor (Stop & Go's is absolutely ace), but forget the CO2 cylinder kits which are a pain in the a**e when they don't explode as they should, and even if they do, if you haven't got the hole plugged properly and have to re-do, then you are stuffed if you have run out of cylinders.
Rant over
I take it to mean not for cars/vans etc, only bikes.
buncobooth
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The one beef that I have about these is the stupid reference temperature adjustment. They are great at telling you your tyre is deflating, but seeing as they must be measuring the raw tyre pressure, they could be very useful at telling you about over-inflation (which can also be dangerous). I had a problem when touring in Spain/France, the air temp was 40 degrees and the road temperature a lot higher. My bike started handling very strange, getting a lot of vibrations and felt like riding on ice. The displayed TPS readings were unchanged (around 2.5 and 2.9 bar for a laden bike) so I didn't think anything of it. Next stop I checked them with a pressure gauge and they were 3.0 and 3.5. The excessive air and road heat and Conti Trail Attacks' tendency to heat up meant they got up to a very high pressure which I expected the bike would have warned me about (as this is outside the normal range). Instead it converted them to this stupid 20 degree reference temperature which meant they were displaying as normal. This could be a great system if it told you the correct pressure with no adjustment, there is no point telling me what my pressures would be at 20 degrees when the temperature is 40 (or any other temperature for that matter). I really don't understand why they work like this, maybe someone can enlighten me 
My TPS flashed a warning on my way home last night, inspection showed a small flint and a slow leak.
It would have been a pain if id not noticed till this morning.
It was first ever puncture in a tubeless tire in 15years on bikes - Used a Stop & Go kit to fix it and for a ham-fisted fool like me I have to say it was very easy
It would have been a pain if id not noticed till this morning.
It was first ever puncture in a tubeless tire in 15years on bikes - Used a Stop & Go kit to fix it and for a ham-fisted fool like me I have to say it was very easy
Bendy toy
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I don't see why there is all this Luddite attitude about in tyre doops.
The police use Puncturesafe which will seal nails holes or slow down a larger leak giving more time to stop.
That's good enough for me and my tyre fitter has no problems with and (guess what) neither do my TPS monitors.
The police use Puncturesafe which will seal nails holes or slow down a larger leak giving more time to stop.
That's good enough for me and my tyre fitter has no problems with and (guess what) neither do my TPS monitors.
There's nothing Luddite about it - it's just a different viewpoint from yours.
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