Afternoon all!
Having just gone to change a tyre/tube and discovered the wheel needs rim tape (which I don't have here) I wondered if the forummers here use off the shelf rim tape or just whatever insulating/duct/zinc oxide comes to hand...?
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Rim tape options?
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Any old 'electrical' tape is usually OK
Crucial things are -
a) cover spoke heads (or holes in double skinned rim)
b) make sure doesn't go up sides of rim and interfere with seating of tyre.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Doubled-(or tripled-)-over duck tape makes less of a sticky mess of a rim than insulating tape. I bought a roll of fabric stuff for my self-build wheel which will probably make a sticky mess of the rim as it had that soft, stretchy adhesive on it. Best stuff I've had is the circle of very slightly stretchy plastic which came with oldbike's wheels and stretches just enough to be ported between wheels.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I have only ever had to replace rim tape once and I did it by cutting an old inner tube into a strip. Wasn't easy though..
Posted 12 years ago # -
On the rare occasions where I've had to replace rim tape or tape a new rim, I just go to my LBS (usually Leith Cycle Co.) and buy some. Unsurprisingly, works fine!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Yep, nothing better to tape a rim than rim tape.
Posted 12 years ago # -
10 out of 10 for practicality.
0 out of 10 for imagination.. :-PPosted 12 years ago # -
Lol,
Well the improvised rim tape was fine, but the Continental GP tyre was a right sod to fit, (I've fitted easier motorbike tyres!), and although I inflated it carefully in three stages to reach full pressure, it seems I must've pinched the tune somewhere, as about five minutes after leaving it to get a cuppa there was a loud noise from the garage and I found my newly fitted tyre flat :(
Now in the huff with it!Posted 12 years ago # -
That's what you get for using "imagination". :p
Posted 12 years ago # -
Velox.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Or Fond de Jante.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@Smudge, I have had a very similar experience.
I replaced my Dawes' tyres 35s with 28s when it got warmer this year, and tried the multi stage pumping to ensure no trapped innertube. Pumped it up, no apparent bulges, so went inside to wash my hands having rested the bike on my wall. My neighbour came home with her family in tow and just as they drove up BANG!!! She even stopped and came out of her car before getting into her drive to see what had happened. One flat tyre and a tube with a tear 4 inches long was the answer....
Posted 12 years ago # -
Frustrating isn't it, and alarming if you're near it!(and actually nothing to do with "experimentation" ;-p :-D )
Haven't yet removed the tube as it's a non-rush job just now and currently being pushed aside by many more important jobs :-/
I'll get to it though :-)Posted 12 years ago #
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