Page 1 of 5

Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:16 am
by diggermanbob
Are mousses legal for an MOT.

Re: Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:20 am
by herman
No but I have never had a fail, pop a valve in if you are worried.

Re: Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:27 am
by captinktm
herman wrote:No but I have never had a fail, pop a valve in if you are worried.

In my days of mousse en I used to put a valve in anyway, this help pop a soft moussed tyre on the rim. Mot man will never notice unless your running a very soft one then he could say your tyre pressures are wrong.

Re: Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:00 pm
by Helicoptermanr22
Not legal

Re: Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:35 pm
by Grahamkevinbutler
Helicoptermanr22 wrote:Not legal
So is driving with out a licence but people do,
You will find that there are a good few doing fearly long road off road tours on mousses including myself, I find they work very well on light mid range bikes,

Re: Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:47 pm
by AlanHolt
If they're not legal, then you're technically not insured.

Re: Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 8:44 pm
by diggermanbob
I'm taking them out , done the back one just got the front to do , so I have a couple of free mousses if anyone wants to collect them (thumbs)

Re: Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:02 pm
by Gavinskii
Hi Bob,

I would love them, can I collect when I am up for the March Hare LDT?

Re: Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:08 pm
by oldoak
not sure how much anyone has had experience of this, but I have been using goop in all my vehicle tyres for the past 10 years.

it stared when I worked in forestry and got a puncture in my van tyre every few months. so I gooped the tyres. never had a puncture after that.

When I got my Peg it seemed the natural thing to do, so I gooped up the tubes. and same thing, never had a puncture, on or off road.

I'm surprised people aren't more into it, but perhaps there is a reason for this I don't know. the relatively low speed of my Peg might mean that higher speeds are inadvisable for such stuff, however 100mph seems quick enough to me!

Re: Mousses

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:59 pm
by micksea
Grahamkevinbutler wrote:
Helicoptermanr22 wrote:Not legal
So is driving with out a licence but people do,
You will find that there are a good few doing fearly long road off road tours on mousses including myself, I find they work very well on light mid range bikes,
could you elaborate on this i.e. type of mousses,tyres.how often do you re-lube them? what kind of mileage you get from them? what speed do you do on the road? what bike? thanks