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Submitted by
Bertone
a Cross Country Rider
from Glos.
Date Reviewed: February 26, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$2.00 | | Purchased At: | everywhere | | Strengths: | Brilliant, never fail, even when your hands are covered in mud. Like all repairs, just make sure its clean. I have one tube with seven leech repairs on it and I've never used glue since trying these. 100% reliable - they make permanent repairs. Had a double puncture recently but forgot my repair kit. I found one tiny leech pull tab stuck inside my camelbak and it worked. For the second puncture I managed to peel off a few mm of an old leech patch, barely sticky, but hey, that worked too. These dodgy repairs held up all week until I put new leeches on. Have faith!!
| | Weaknesses: | None, can't see where these reviewers went wrong, but then you'll never convert glue sniffers. | | Similar Products Used: | Park patches - now these I find totally without stick and limp and hopeless in anything but bone dry conditions. | | Bike Setup: | GT i-drive. SIDs, Fox Float RC | | Bottom Line: | Don't use anything else - where's my endorsement fee Ampro? | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Neil A
a Weekend Warrior
from U.K
Date Reviewed: December 10, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | Any | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$4.00 | | Purchased At: | Halfords | | Strengths: | Easy to use and extremly quick without causing a mess. | | Weaknesses: | Must get patch dead centre and onto a dry surface. | | Bike Setup: | I use them on my moto-x bike and bmx. | | Bottom Line: | Don't knock them untill you have tried them.The product is easy to use,cheap and fast.Does exactly what you need it to do.I will definately continue to use them.My friends after being told about them have started using them and agree.WE USE THEM MAINLY ON OUR MOTO-X BIKES!!!
LEECHES ARE THE WAY FORWARD. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
a monty
a Weekend Warrior
from yorkshire England
Date Reviewed: August 3, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | owt | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$4.00 | | Purchased At: | Halfords | | Strengths: | None that i can think of exept they stop things rattleing in a repair tin if there is some space | | Weaknesses: | THEY EXIST! takeing up precious space in a repair kit dont stick, dont stick cant get backing off in the cold. | | Similar Products Used: | good old rubber solution and propper patches | | Bike Setup: | scott | | Bottom Line: | DO NOT BUY DO NOT BUY DO NOT BUY DO NOT BUY DO NOT BUY DO NOT BUY unless you like walking home after a flat or carry a spare inner tube. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dave Morris
a Weekend Warrior
from Wales
Date Reviewed: February 15, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Afan Argoed | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Light, compact and convenient | | Weaknesses: | They just don't work!!!! They retain pressure for a few hours, a day max. They seem to stick OK but gradually let you down at work, overnight etc. Don't rely on them and don't leave your old puncture repair stuff at home, cause pre-glued patches will strand you in the wilderness. | | Similar Products Used: | Various similarly useless pre-glued nightmares. | | Bike Setup: | Kona MTB and Kona singlespeed, handbuilt triathlon bike | | Bottom Line: | Glue and tyre levers may be hassle, but do the job properly yourself once only and get back on your bike. Pre-glued patches? they're small enough to take along as a LAST RESORT, but you'd better hope that doesn't mean somewhere inhospitable or your last best hope could leave you in real trouble. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
NED
a cross-country rider
from CA
Date Reviewed: March 11, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
I HAVE TRIED ALL OF THE GLUELESS PATCHES ON THE MARKET. LEECHES ARE THE WORST. THEY TRIED TO COPY THE ORIGINAL
INVENTORS OF THE GLUELESS PATCH ANF DID A TERRIBLE JOB.PARK, SKABS, INNOVATIONS, TAIWAN, PERFORMANCE, SCHWINN,
ARE ALL SECOND RATE COPY CATS.. THE OLDEST GLUELESS PATCH
AND STILL THE BEST IS SPEED PATCH MADE IN THE USA.
LOOK FOR YOURSELF WWW.SPEEDPATCH.COM | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Steve
a cross-country rider
from Denver, CO
Date Reviewed: January 12, 1999 | | Bottom Line: |
THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! THESE THINGS DONT WORK! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
steve woodward
a racer
from
Date Reviewed: November 5, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
I've used these for year without ever having a problem, quick and easy to use,
Ideal for races and last, even in a wet and muddy British winter. Don't see
why other have had problems, I carry mine round in a film container which keeps
them sticky, which may help. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
dave
a cross-country rider
from VErmont
Date Reviewed: June 12, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
These patches really suck. I have yet to have one hold for more than a few minutes!! what a pain in the ass to be a few miles into skeeter infested woods and walk out Don't buy these patches cheaper to carry cheap tubes along. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
javier meneses
a racer
from london
Date Reviewed: June 6, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
Worst thing I've ever tried on my bike. Nothing as the good old stuff. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Leech Defenders
a weekend warrior
from UK
Date Reviewed: May 21, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
Well..... what can I say, there was I thinking leeches were preaty good, they stick to the tube and fix the damm puncture. So what's wrong with them?? they don't even need glue!!!!
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Submitted by
craig ward
a weekend warrior
from scotland
Date Reviewed: May 16, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
These things suck just so much!! When I saw them in the shop I thought that my days of mucking about with glue and stupid patches were over. I tried them out over a few weeks and not one of the damm things would work on any puncture I got. The puncture just blew a bloody great hole right in the middle of the thing!! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John Mount
a weekend warrior
from Orem UT
Date Reviewed: April 28, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
Put one on my tube and it blew right through. Major bummer, plus slightly bent rim (you all know the drill). I keep my Stumpy's pressure about 70 psi and it just wouldn't hold. Nothing holds as well as a new tube, but something has to get me home. Oh well, back to the old glue-ons. | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Neiertz Tom
a racer
from Mondercange (LUXEMBOURG)
Date Reviewed: January 15, 1997 | | Bottom Line: |
I'm using Leeches since '96, and I never complained about them. You stick them on the hole and go out and ride.
Where's the problem | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Loic Gueraud
a cross-country rider
from France
Date Reviewed: November 7, 1996 | | Bottom Line: |
Once upon a time I tried Leeches which didn't work; now i use rustines | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Luis Leon
a weekend warrior
from Bklyn
Date Reviewed: October 24, 1996 | | Bottom Line: |
I tried them twice on a tube, they would pump up okay, but then release the air overnight... Old style glue patches still rule... | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mark Goldie
a cross-country rider
from England
Date Reviewed: October 12, 1996 | | Bottom Line: |
These are completely useless. I got some free with a magazine, so thought I'd try them out. They stick fine, but when I pumped up the tube to anywhere near rideable pressure, I blew a hole through the center of the Leech ! Not only that, but when you get home & want to put a proper patch on there, they're a bugger to get off. Avoid ! | | Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Peter
a cross-country rider
from Switzerland
Date Reviewed: August 20, 1996 | | Bottom Line: |
In a word - crap. Of course, they did not let me down within 200 metres of
home. They let me down in a day punctuated by punctures - four to be precise. They hold air at ambient
pressure quite well - but anything more than that - say 10 psi - they
can't handle. I will carry old style patches from now on (- and try to land
the jumps better)! | | Overall Rating: |
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