First Impressions- TY Products Tyre Yogurt

(Woodside BikeWorks - 17th August 2019) This review is long overdue to be honest. I actually got sent the Sahmurai Sword tubeless tyre repair kit at the start of ‘summer’, and TY’s Tyre Yogurt sealant and valves shortly after. Long story short, I excitedly installed both on one of my bikes at the first chance I got, but with DH World Cup commitments, work, and life in general, I haven’t been riding a whole lot since. So this isn’t the long term test I’d planned but more of a first impressions type of review; mainly because I’ve yet to have a puncture, and don’t really fancy sticking a nail through my tyre just to see how it goes!
I can say that TY’s Tyre Yogurt does its job well. I set my 650 b+ rig with 3″ tyres tubeless and despite the bike being sat around a couple of weeks at a time while I’m on my travels at races, pressure loss has been minimal. Fair to say its doing its job then. Its latex and ammonia free, so there’s no unpleasant odour. The yogurt contains millions of fibres permanently suspended in the sealant and they claim it wont dry out or ball up (mine hasn’t so far) and it’ll fix holes up to 4 mm and up to 5 mm cuts.

Again, we’ll have to take their word for it for now, but I’ll let you know how I get on.
The main thing you need to know about TY is it’s not latex-based so works a little different to a lot of other sealants. The first thing you notice about Tyre Yogurt, apart from its purple hue (it actually does kinda look like yogurt) is how thick it is. So to the installation. With this stuff, squirting it through the valve hole wont get you very far and it needs a little help to coat the inside of the tyre fully.
My tip is to coat the inside of the tyre lightly with sealant, then add some extra before you finish seating the tyre. I used about 120 ml per tyre in my fat 3.0’s but I reckon 100 ml would be fine for standard tyres.
In short then, a good product, works well, less harmful and unpleasant than most of its competition even if it takes a little longer to get set up. Oh and it’s available in 500 or 150 ml sizes. I also got a set of TY’s own tubeless valves to check out. There’s not much you can say about a valve but I thought the flat base and soft rubber seal on the rim side was a neat touch. Getting a tight, leak-free seal was easy at first attempt. My only criticism would be that on my test set, the cap screws on to the valve core rather than the stem. It hasn’t caused any issues, but you do worry about loosening the valve core every time you unscrew the cap. I’m told this has been sorted on the more recent ones though. They come in black or red, 40 mm length only and are £18 a pair.
Right then, with the tyres set up tubeless, on to the Sahmurai Sword. There are a bunch of tubeless repair kits on the market………………………….For the full article follow the link