djpfine

Found a small cut in my rear tire and filled it with Shoe Goo last night. I let all the air out, tried to fill in as much of the cut as I could, and then taped the tire flat against the rim to "close" the cut and allow the Shoe Goo to cure.

Once everything has dried, do I leave the Shoe Goo residue around the cut alone and just ride as is? Or should I be trying to scrape/wipe off any excess until the only Shoe Goo left is inside the cut itself?

HillRider

I'd have applied the Shoe Goo with the tire still on the rim and inflated. Shoe Goo is a filler, not an effective glue so you want it to fill in the cut. It's not strong enough to hold the cut edges together.

Unless the lump is very pronounced, leave it alone. A few miles of riding will wear it down to the level of the rest of the tire.

djpfine

Good advice, thanks. I'll fully inflate the tire when I get home today and will fill it with more Shoe Goo. When it wears off and it's time to reapply, I'll use your method from the get go.

fietsbob

It's like asking if there is a proper use of Ductape.. but its really not a cure.
make a budget for a tire replacement perhaps?

Booger1

Use the shoe goo to mount a patch(piece of old tube or tire) inside the tire and forget about the cut.

HillRider

Of course there is. Actually there are only two repair tool needed for everything, duct tape and WD-40.

1. If it moves and it isn't supposed to, apply duct tape.
2. If it doesn't move and it's supposed to, apply WD-40

Everything else is just a refinement.

deep_sky

Is the cut all the way through the tire, or is it just through the outer rubber? If the former, replace it. If the later, just keep an eye on it. If I applied glue to every cut I have on my tires, there would be more glue than tire at this point

rekmeyata

IF the cut goes all the way through the tire, and IF the cut is less then a 1/4th of inch on the inside then you don't have to throw away the tire if you don't want to. You can simply glue a Park tire boot patch over the cut on the inside of the tire. Even if the cut did not penetrate the belts you can still use a Park tire boot to reinforce the area of the tire where the cut is, especially if the cut is fairly long, if it's a small little 1/8th inch slice then there's no need for the boot as long as it didn't cut any of the belts. You can tell if you need a boot patch when you fill the tire with air and you feel a slight bump where the cut is; that's the tube putting pressure on the belts causing it push the tire cut outward a bit, like a hernia, and like a hernia you need to reinforce it.

Then you can either Shoe Goo it, OR you can use Super Glue on the outside of the tire to fill in the cut. I've used Super Glue for many years on tire cuts and never had a problem, in fact I think it works better then Shoe Goo. Super Glue will dry faster, dry harder so nothing will penetrate the cut, plus it stores in my seat bag while Shoe Goo won't, plus you can use Super Glue for other things that may break on the road.

djpfine

The cut isn't too deep as there are no visible bulges so I think the belts are fine.

rekmeyata

That's good, now how long is the cut and does it go length wise or across the tire? If the cut is just a small little 1/8th of an inch cut just fill it with Super Glue or Shoe Goo and be going about your merry way. If it's closer to a 1/4th of inch or more then still fill it in with glue, but put a boot patch on the underside just to be safe. Those boot patches come in about a 1 1/2 by 2 inch piece, you can cut these patches to fit inside a narrow tire and still save the rest of the patch for later use. My last cut was about 3/8ths of an inch but it didn't penetrate the casing nor cut it; so I cut a small patch about 1/2 by 1/4th just to make sure the slice had adequate support and to ensure nothing would go through the slice and penetrate the tire faster.

Jed19

This is how I fill my tire cuts. I just use a scraper to fill and also level the fill with the scraper.

davidad

Ain't worth the trouble unless you don't like the look. If the tire is cut through I super glue then cover with duct tape a patch made of 1/32" pipe flange gasket material. I then ride the tire until it wears out. I don't use the tire on the front anymore, but I have never had a failure with the boot.

djpfine

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'll pickup a boot next time I'm at the LBS and will keep it for larger cuts. The one I posted about is a teeny bit larger than 1/8th of an inch so I'll probably leave it alone for now.

rekmeyata

I've never had a failure with a boot either. I've ridden many booted tires at least a thousand of miles after a boot was put in.