Has anyone used ride on in there tires want to know if this product really works
Ride On?
It
will seal … if still fluid when leak starts , if it can reach the leak.
It
will balance a tire
… if ridden while still fluid.
I bought enough to treat a couple bikes and a trike once. Sometime later … maybe a year or so after treating my GL1200 bike, the rear tire was
flat. I had put new rubber stems in with the new tires, I always do. I have habit of checking tires before rides, but when I moved it off the center stand that day, I could hardly move the bike, I knew
"not good". Pulled air hose to air up, stem had cracks and
Ride On had oozed out. I knew, must have been a very old stem the shop sold me to be rotted that fast. I also saw some white stuff on the tire bead where something had oozed out between the tire & rim. I drove my car to work and after work, I removed the rear wheel & tire, broke tire bead on one side, put a new all metal stem in, noticed dry flakey stuff in the rim, pumped tire up, remounted it, parked bike. Next day it was flat again. I dismounted it all again, took a lot of scrubbing to clean that crap off my rim bead, but after that it was OK. I also had checked the front, was adding air there too, noticed a few whisps from the rim edge, decided to dismount and inspect and put in a all metal stem there too, every bit of the
Ride On had dried there too, took a lot more scrubbing to clean the rim, put everything back, no more flats.
In fact, the
only flat I've ever had on a
MC in 45 years was that rear tire on the 1200 with
Ride On in it.
I pitched (into the trash) the other containers as I had not yet used them. I will say It did balance really well, smooth as silk, but then, so do my Air Soft Red Jacket .22 Caliber Hard Plastic BBs.
What bothered me about it was it had hardened into a flakey substance on my rim and had seeped into the rim-bead area between the aluminum and tire bead before hardening, leading to leaks there that otherwise have never been an issue. Lots of scrubbing with soap & water and I got it all gone. I suspect the
Ride On did stop a leak at my rear tire's decayed stem, but it was at best an awful mess to clean up after. It was also nearly all dried. The front tire had never gone flat, but I did add air often, and there were those whisps of white from between the tire bead & rim like I had noticed on the back tire/rim. .
Just my experience there. :Shrug:
I had bought the several containers or kits from a friend who was a distributor after another friend had found a 5/16" or 3/8" bolt stuck in his bike's rear tire sealed by the
Ride On he had put in. He didn't know the bolt was there or even to look for it until a co-worker noticed it at work at the trucking terminal parking lot where he worked, he rode it the <1/4 mile to the Honda shop across the road after work to get it fixed. By time I had my experience, the friend who was a distributor had moved far away so I let it pass.