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I have always used insulation tape for my tubeless setups on my mountain bike and cyclocross bike but I've not yet committed to tubeless on the road bike...until now.
I have never managed to get the Stans (etc) rim strips to work but two wraps of insulation tape, biased to each side of the rim has worked every single time.
The potential problemm, unless it isn't a problem, is the higher pressures in the road tyres. Anybody used insulation tape on road tyres and not died?
Nope, tried it and doesn't work at road pressures.
Just get the tesa Stan's tape if you're feeling tight, it works fine, still needs two wraps as per the stans instructions. I found I had to put a tube in overnight to get it pressed down properly in the narrower rim.
Tried it with tubes on a road wheel years ago, within a day or two the tube had pushed it's way through a lot of the spoke holes.
25mm gorilla tape from B&Q for a £5
Used two wraps of the black 19mm electric tape on Mavic Ksyrium with Schwalbe one pro TL worked fine. They are tubeless ready wheels.
25mm gaffa tape works perfect
> Nope, tried it and doesn’t work at road pressures.
+1
Yellow tape even from my LBS is pretty cheap these days and seems to work pretty well.
Not tried at road pressures but +1 for 25mm gorilla tape, all I've used for years on the mtb with no issues, mainly because it was £2.99 instead of around £15 for Stans and is easier to fit
Another one here for Gorilla tape
Although i do one wrap of electrical tape first before the gorilla tape, so if you have to remove the Gorilla tape at a later date it dosent leave a sticky mess that's hard to clean off the rim
No one likes a sticky rim!
Another for Gorilla tape here. I used to ues Stans and thought it was a pain (not sticking to a rim etc).
I've done the last 3-4 pairs of wheels with Gorilla tape, the latest ones last night and they've gone up and stayed up with minimal fuss.
Tesa 4289 tape from ebay. Works a treat on my road tubeless set up.
not worth it. get proper rim tape.
Guess I am not tight enough but I always use tubeless tape. Just done some 30mm 29er rimes and 9m of tape cost £10 so not really worth worrying about.
Guess I am not tight enough but I always use tubeless tape. Just done some 30mm 29er rimes and 9m of tape cost £10 so not really worth worrying about.
LOL, that. By the time I've bought all the bits to build a decent set of wheels and then the cost of tyres, a bit of proper tape is neither here nor there. It's less messy than the alternatives, goes on simply and I've never yet needed anything other than a standard track pump to get the tyres inflated.
i found tesa tape to be a pain in the arse
i use the clear gorilla tape , goes on easy , sticks better and comes off cleanly unlike the gaffa style gorilla tape.
Thank you for all of the replies' It's not the cost of the yellow rim tape by any means. it's just that I haven't ever managed to get it to work! Insulation tape has been a dream but the Stans yellow tape? It's been rubbish for me.
These are nice carbon road rims so I want them to work without fuss , by which I mean not wresting tyres on and off multiple times. The Gorilla tape looks like it's winning me over.