Anyone use Slime?

[in4]

Interested in any experience you might have using Slime. Does it work? Best when pre-loaded into new tubes? TIA

[energyman]

My 4 bikes have either Slime inner tubes or injected Slime and so far I have to say no problems.
Maybe I've been lucky never having had to put it to the test.
Many years ago when I sold my son's mountain bike the new owner called to ask what the green discs he had found on the inner tubes were.  All my son ever did was pump up the tyres when they were going soft and see if anything was sticking out of the tyres.

[John Saxby]

Hi Ian,

From another time & a different 2-wheeler: in 1989/90, as we were settling back into Ottawa after 6-plus years in Southern/Central Africa, I bought a very nice'n'tidy 600cc single-cylinder Yamaha road bike (rather unimaginatively named the SRX 600.)

I learned, however, that if one had to remove the rear wheel, it would have been a very complicated task, entailing dismantling most of the rear half of the bike.  As a precaution, I injected a healthy dose of Slime.  Nothing ever went wrong -- no flats -- so perhaps the Slime had an effective prophylactic function?

Then again maybe it was superfluous, as in all my 50-plus years riding motorcycles in N America and Africa, I never had a flat.  So -- I'll never know, but the Slime didn't hurt.

Take that, umm, FWIW, and good luck!