Tubeless Tyres -"saying the same things about tubeless tyres over and over again" Hippy read the first f**king post

First on-road Silca sealant experience this evening. Gravelking Slicks, Silca sealant with one dose of replenisher about a month ago (I added replenisher somewhat early as I was slightly concerned about reports of the sealant drying out).

Very wet road, lots of leaves and other kerbside shite. Saw the sealant spraying from the front tyre - a lot of sealant. Lots of mess on the forks and on the shoes. Pissing down, dark. Realised after a minute this was not going to be an instant seal, stopped and tried to keep the hole at the bottom. Several minutes elapsed, or so it seemed, before things started to slow down. By then the tyre had lost a fair bit of air but was still just rideable so I rode somewhere quieter for a better look. Whereupon I discovered:

• a Lezyne road drive - or mine anyway, I haven’t used it for a long time - is useless with a 40mm tyre
  
• I really need to sort out those cycling varifocals and the head torch I have been meaning to get, because:
  
• a Dynaplug is not much good if you can’t really see exactly where to put it
  
• if I hadn’t had mudguards on this bike, there would have been one hell of a mess
  
  

So after what seemed like ages, sealant stopped coming out and I used the CO2 I have been avoiding using in case it affects the sealant, rode home, put proper air in, and swapped the valve core while I was at it.

So, like my first experience of Silca when I first set the tyres up (with used tyres, one of which had a hole), it can be very slow to seal but it eventually does.

On the plus side, I guess, I didn’t have to change a tube.