Review: Off-Road.cc - Birzman Tubeless Repair Kit

Road.cc has reviewed the Birzman Tubeless Repair Kit. Here is what they had to say:

The Birzman Tubeless Repair Kit has the same form factor (and threaded end) as a CO2 canister, so you can add it to a canister mount if you have one on your bike, or just sling it in your toolkit. The tool is effective at plugging punctures in road and gravel tyres, and the case holds everything together so it's nice and tidy.

The Birzman Tubeless Repair Kit is designed as an emergency fix out on the road or trail, when something makes a big enough hole in your tyre that the sealant won't plug the gap. Inside the steel casing are five 3mm tyre plugs – or worms, or anchovies, or whatever – for fixing your puncture, and a combined file and insertion fork.

Fixing a puncture is simple and it's the standard process: stick the fork through the hole and use the file to roughen up the edges of the hole a bit, then feed a worm through the fork end and shove it into the hole before working the fork back out, leaving the fix in place. The combination of the sticky worm and the sealant should have you airtight again.

Overall, this is a good kit, and it's very nicely designed; you might want to add a couple of things to make it more of a complete solution, but it'll get you home in a pinch. I don't have any kind of mount for a CO2 canister on my bike but even so it's a pretty compact kit that fits into my tool bottle easily enough, and the case protects the plugs (they can pick up dust and grime really easily, reducing their effectiveness).