Would you consider the Genuine Innovations kit bacon? Any feedback on how it works? It has the strips and a little tool to jam it in the tire.
Got it as a gift and curious if it is worth using. Tubeless on road and gravel fwiw
I have the same one I think, never had to use it. Would do of course if I had too, but I’ve bought a Stan’s dart now because it seems quicker to use and I like the little flower thingy concept.
I bought the Stan’s Dart. The valve core tool stripped after a handful of uses. Over-priced junk, in my opinion.
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I tried the Stan’s dart this past weekend with mixed results. The dart breaks very easily and then the metal piece that the dart is on bends very easily. I tried it again and it got me home but i wouldn’t say i was very confident in it. Not sure if I’ll buy more or not.
This is all I’ve ever used, with an 100% success record. I also carry another kit with larger worms just in case, but for small nicks that just won’t seal this is perfect. I’d imagine most failures would be either just too large a hole, or using bad technique (not pushing it in far enough or twisting the tool).
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The valve core thing is plastic, none of them last very long. I use a spoke key instead.
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Have the Dart in blow-out kit but haven’t used it yet. I’ve read on some reviews that it does not work well with any latex sealants other than Stan’s, but I have no experience with it…just passing what I read.
Have just installed inserts that apparently are incompatible with ammonia based sealants, (Stan’s, etc…) so Dynaplug looks like a more universal solution for me so I may not get a chance to test Dart…This is for MTB though, I ride tubes on RB so not much help to OP with high psi requirements.
What causes bacon strips to pop out? Not inserting them deep enough? Shouldn’t they bond with the rubber and sealant and become permanent?
I’ve only used a bacon strip one time and it worked well and looks pretty permanent. If anything the strip seemed too fat. I had to ream out a skinny thorn hole and then it took a lot of force to get the thing in.
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I’ve heard that too. If anyone has success with stans dart with any sealant other than stans please let us know.
Maybe the stickiness? 
I had a riding buddy put a dynaplug in. He rode about a mile and it came out. Only thing we could figure was it stuck to the road and ripped out. Since then I always rub some dirt onto the plug after cutting it to get rid of the stickiness. And I’ve never had that issue.
I’ve had a bacon strip in my front Schwalbe Pro One 25mm for at least 500k now. I’ve now ridden with it on all kinds of terrain, including really rough gravel and even singletrack with bikepacking gear on the bike. Still in there and no issues.
When installing it, I rotated the installation tool ~360 degrees before puling it out. I’ve heard some claims that this might help twist it into a knot that makes it a little less likely to pop out?
Well that didn’t take long to be proved right! Went out yesterday for coffee, got cocky as it was a short ride and just grabbed the minimal kit (5 small worms, CO2)…at literally the furthest point from home my girlfriend ran over some glass which put a decent sized slit in the tyre, spraying sealant everywhere with no sign of stopping on it’s own!
…4 used strips later, 1 of which popped out and the remaining 3 (!) of which stayed in in a row along the slash somehow managed to amalgamate into a blob capable of sealing the hole. Prayers were offered and a successful ride home followed (short ride to intermediate cafe stop, then added as much pressure as I dared for the longer leg home). Twisting the strip to make a ‘knot’ and being careful withdrawing the tool was the only thing that saved us I reckon. Lesson learned, next time bring the full kit with the larger worms and patches!
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The Stan’s Dart is $25. For this premium price I would have expected it to be a lot stronger. I felt ripped off.
Yeah, it’s not cheap. It’s actually £25 here in the UK, so a bit more. The cheapest dynaplug is £35. To be fair, Stan’s sell it as a tubeless tyre plugging device, and not really a valve core tool. I imagine the valve core bit is ok if you keep it for emergencies.
If you want a cheap system, go with bacon strips. To me the dart / dynaplug tools are aimed at racers where ease and speed of use are important. (Though they’ll probably find a bigger marked about recreational cyclists that just have to have the shiniest toys).
I used my dart this weekend to seal a pretty big hole. Didn’t seal at 1st but pulled it out some and it sealed up tight. Now question. I have a spare tire should I swap it out or just keep using the sealed up tire?
I have the same question. I have a gravel tire with a dart in it. I was planning to patch the tire with the Hutchinson kit but could not find one right away and I needed to get back up and running for a ride and bought a new tire.
Dynaplug is spendy but picked up the micro as
- it contains all you’d need in a neat package
- they confidently state you can repair the sidewall
- sell it as a permanent repair
I’ve not had to use one yet, so can’t vouch for any of the above but quite a few people in this thread seem to patch repairs once home with other systems.
It does look nice and shiny too… 
I’ve left mine in so far, mostly out of curiosity. See what happens. Its my commuter bike, and even though my commute is stupidly long, I’m never far from a train station. If I’d go on a long ride away from help, I’d change the tyre.
One thing to keep in mind is that if you get another big problem with the tyre and have to put a tube in, I think you’ll have to pull the dart out first, or it’ll puncture the tube.
I only have experience with the bacon style, and of the few times I have needed them, they worked. Small rip on my gravel tire that was small enough for sealant to work until I aired back up to running pressures. A folded over strip of bacon and several thousand miles later it is still holding.
On my MTB I have used them a couple times, held every time. I wore the tires out but the plugs were still there.
I don’t run road tubeless, so no experience there.
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I carry bacon now because Dynaplug micro has failed me twice, although to be fair it worked 5 times before the two fails. First fail was when two different plugs melted inside the metal tubes and also inside the metal container - which is carried inside my seat bag - and I was left without plugs. That was seriously disappointing. The other time was when the brass plug wouldn’t push thru the tire, even after using the hole bore tool.
So I’ve had some success with Dynaplug, but those two incidents drove me to go to carrying individually wrapped bacon.