So do lead weights on the wheel, at minimal cost. It all depends on who chooses to spend their money wisely, or not.
I don't agree with the wisely/unwisely conclusion. It infers that one person's analysis gives the same answer as everybody else's. I feel strongly both ways. I used it for years and had good results with it. I changed a worn tire once with a puncture in it that I didn't know was there. But as a pensioner, I don't use it any more strictly because of cost/benefit. When I was working, I just spent the money and said "so what, it might help". Now I have to think about it more. An extra $34 at each change is no longer insignificant to me. Financially, it reminds me of back when I had to buy tires
and tubes. Except for one front flat, every flat I've had in 50 years has been on the rear tire. All but one of those was gradual air loss. Since all I run now is tubeless tires, the repair has usually been quick and painless. I normally carry a compressor, gummy worms, and a Stop-n-Go kit. On desolate trips away from civilization I add a couple of large CO2 cartridges; internal patches; an emergency use tube; and tire tools. I had to use the internal patches once when a sharp wide shale stone put a rip in my rear tire on the Dempster Highway. Ride-on would not have had a chance on that. It took an internal patch to fix it.
Explaining the picture, the extra tire on the rear was my worn Metzeler 880. I had a guy in Dawson City get me a new rear tire for the trip up the Dempster and he changed it on his automatic changer. The only new tire he could get me quickly was a Harley-Davidson branded Dunlop D402. In the 900 miles of the round trip, the new Harley Dunlop experienced four flats. Several of them took multiple gummy worms side-by-side to fix. I had this flat about 60 miles from the end of the journey and it was too severe for gummy worms. I decided I was not man enough to put the M880 back on roadside, so I demounted the D402 and put in an internal patch. If I didn't have a couple of 68 gram CO2 cartridges, I doubt I could have reseated the bead. I could have used my emergency tube, which would have eliminated the reseating worry, but I decided to try this first. When I got back to Dawson City I had the worn-out Metzeler 880 reinstalled and tossed the nearly new D402. I rode the worn-out M880 over the Top of the World Highway into Tok and then down to Anchorage for a new M880.
I guess what I"m saying is that I have found Ride-on to be helpful but expensive in casual use. I find that it does what it says it will do, but it is no guarantee. Of course there are times when it does not work, and their commercials don't show the times when it doesn't work. I absolutely
would not rely on it in desolate rides. In fact, without knowing for sure, I harbor a suspicion that its use may interfere with the bonding of a gummy worm repair in the event that the Ride-on proved insufficient. In this particular remote case, it took an internal repair. For casual rides in populated areas I now balance my tires with weights, and carry a normal flat repair kit plus a AAA Motorcycle towing card.
Everyone has a different pattern of use; different financial realities; and they make their own cost/benefit analysis coming up with an answer that is right for them. For me, it used to be right and now it is not. Same person, same product, same performance, but a different conclusion because my personal needs and limitations changed.
As the famous philosopher Popeye says...
"Ya pays ya nickel, and ya takes ya choice."
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