About TY Bike Products
TY Bike Products - All Things Tubeless
Tyre Yogurt, from the guys at TY Bike Products, is a tubeless sealant was born from a love of mountain biking and a hatred of punctures ruining rad days on the hill.
Where else could such a product have been conceived and developed than in the mountains! (Morzine, 2017)
The product on the shelves today is not a million miles away from how it first looked, but hours of bench testing, miles of track testing and hundreds of sacrificial tyres have gone into perfecting the details to ensure that Tyre Yogurt offers Premium Puncture Protection and really is "Flat Free and Full of Fibre" (Matthew Casson & John Dredge)
Tyre Yogurt - Conceived in Morzine, Perfected in Saddleworth, Tested Worldwide.
A Big Day Out on the Hill !
Tyre Yogurt doing what it is designed to do - filling large holes and cuts in tubeless tyres.
The Journey to “Flat Free & Full of Fibre”
If you want to know the story, then here it is! Otherwise go to the shop and buy some TY goodies!!
Once upon a time….. in April 2017, in the mountains around Morzine, Jon has a small puncture in one of his tubeless mountain bike tyres. The latex based sealant he was using refused to seal the small hole so he went searching for alternatives. An internet search for commercial / industrial grade tyre sealants uncovered what we now know to be, one of the market leaders in the world of non latex industrial grade tyre sealants.
Jon and Mathew then had a conversation and Jon mentions his new discovery of a heavy duty, latex & ammonia free tyre sealant.
Matt arrives in Morzine and Jon installs his new sealant in his tyres. A team of riders, scattered across Europe, is recruited to test the product and the sealant is tweaked and re-tested in response to their feedback.
As the snow comes to the French Alps and bikes are swapped for skis. But testing still continues, the product is put through its paces during the cold wet winter months in Saddleworth, in the Northern of England, by a die hard group of riders basing themselves out of the Bikeanics bike shop. Jon continues to tweak the product and it is re-tested until everyone is happy with the results achieved.
“Tyre Yogurt” is officially born and Jon and Matt decide that they are going to embark on a new adventure and take the product to market! With this decision, they were adamant that the “Tyre Yogurt” had to be as perfect as it possibly could, using only the best raw ingredients available. Thus, the brilliant industrial grade sealant, used as their original starting point, was switched for an even better military grade spec sealant.
Testing starts all over again and mountain bikes across Europe and Australia are riding with “Tyre Yogurt” in their tubeless tyres, In June 2018, the first bottles of “Tyre Yogurt” roll off the production line.
Being so invested in “All things tubeless”, the guys were unhappy with the poor quality of many tubeless valves available in the marketplace so went searching for what they thought would be the perfect MTB tubeless valve. The TY Bike Products “Flat Base Tubeless Valve”, flat base means a firm airtight fit is easily achieved without cranking on the locking nut with a pair of pliers. The soft malleable rubber internal seal is multi-shaped to fit most internal profiles of MTB rims and this internal seal is not fixed to the valve, making valve removal simple.
With sealant and valves on the shelves, the missing ingredient from “All things tubeless” was a suitable rim tape. If you take a look in a bike mechanics tool box you will always find a roll of "Gorilla Tape". If it's good enough for bike mechanics the world over (and certain high end carbon wheel manufacturers !) then it's good enough for TY and "Gorillas Love Yogurt" apparently!
Never resting on its laurels, TY Bike products in continually testing the ‘Tyre Yogurt’ and in delighted to confirm that the sealant is as versatile as it is brilliant and can be applied not only to bike tyres, be it MTB, BMX and road but also in urban mobility vehicles such as OneWheel, EUC and e-skate boards.
It will not surprise you that ‘Tyre Yogurt’ has also saved the day by sealing holes in pram, Rocker, wheel-barrow and wheelchair tyres.