Peaty’s Holeshot Puncture Plugger kit offers a simpler way of repairing the hole in your tyre. Its unique design utilises a one-sided fork making it easier to push into the hole in your tyre to deliver the plug and extract without dragging it back out again. As it curretly stands, Peaty’s Holeshot Puncture Plugger kit is one of the best tubeless plug kits on the market.
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Peaty’s Holeshot Puncture Plugger Kit – Technical details
Peaty’s Holeshot Puncture Plugger Kit comes in a selection of cool anodised colours (12 of them) to match your bike jewelry which is unlikely to matter much as it will be stuffed away in a bag or pack. But those bright colours do mean it is easier to find in a hurry as long as you don’t opt for the black version that is.
The Holeshot Puncture Plugger is smartly machined in aluminium to form a capsule 6.5cm long and about 2cm in diameter weighing 20g unladen or 24g with its supplied plugs. There are 3 x 1.5mm and 3 x 3mm plugs in the initial kit but you can add a few more in there if you feel particularly unlucky.
The Holeshot Puncture Plugger screws together around a large knurled centre section with the case swapping ends to become the handle. O-rings to keep moisture from getting inside helping to keep the single pronged Stainless Steel fork with a rasp profile shaft in good condition no matter how long you leave it in the bottom of your bag.
Peaty’s Holeshot Puncture Plugger Kit – Performance
In operation, using the Holeshot could not be simpler. You simply locate the hole by finding the obvious latex leak or by removing the thorn from the tyre. Sometimes pumping the tyre back up will force any remaining latex through the hole – just be wary that you are not looking at it when this happens. (Another reason to always carry one bottle of plain water with you to wash your eyes out).
Once you have found the hole, fit the best size plug into the ‘crook’ of the one-sided fork. Actually, it is not quite one-sided, it’s like the other side has been snapped off leaving just enough to hold the plug. Maybe that is where the idea came from in the first place. Then simply push the fork through the tyre – being super careful not to push too hard/far so that you puncture the rim tape – and slowly remove leaving the plug in the tyre. I’ve tested it on 1-2mm thorn holes and also used it on larger flint cuts with equal success.
One or two other tools on the market offer a knife to cut off the excess plug (Muc-off) which is useful and is the only thing missing from Peaty’s Holeshot Puncture Plugger kit but then you might have one in your pack anyway with your hex key set and it’s not like every plug needs to be trimmed off every time.
Peaty’s Holeshot Puncture Plugger Kit – Verdict
Competitors in this market range from Amazon no-name options around £5 upwards to fancy anodised tools that can be plugged into various locations around your bike, bars cranks and steerer tube. The one thing that all these competitors have is that they offer a double-pronged fork with can be really hard to fit the plug into and can pull that plug out when you extract it from the tyre which is sub-optimal.
Having said that Liam really liked the £20 Granite Design Stash Tubeless Flat Tyre Repair Kit although he did find it hard to get the plug into the prong. He also liked the £30 Muc-off Stealth Tubeless Puncture Plug with has an extra tool in the form of a useful knife for the extra cash. Both these fit into your handle bars but they could just also go in your pack just as easily. The £18 Ruzer Pro Tubeless repair kit looks very similar to Peaty’s Holeshot but lacks the serrated reamer shaft and is still double-pronged.
The Holeshot is very simple to use and works extremely well. You can buy refills once you’ve run out for £3.99 for six of either size or source your own. It comes in 12 anodised colours to match Chris King hubs and headsets and more importantly Peaty’s own range of tubeless valves. If you have ever struggled to get plugs into the fork prongs with other tools, £22 is an excellent investment that works really well thanks to its one-sided fork design. Clever.
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Lack if kife is a small issue as most at this price and design don’t have one.
