Home Made Rim Tape?

[Iwasgoodonce]

What do you use? I have always used 3 layers of insulation tape but, I'm thinking of going all posh and cutting up an old inner tube.

What do you reckon? How would I join the ends? The originals (totally destroyed) had a metal clip which doesn't seem the best idea in the world.

 

[matthew71]

just buy some, it,s not worth the bother

 

[lewisfoto]

Rim strips are so cheap and they last for years still I am always intrigued by a DYI solution. I like the inner tube idea since they just get tossed anyway, but maybe they would not be tight enough and hence affect the way the tire sets? Used bike shop near me uses electrical tape.

 

[Midlife]

The metal clip has hole in it where the valve goes does it not?

Shaun

 

[Iwasgoodonce]

I'm not that tight, really! It's just harder to find in the size I'm looking for.

 

[aguycalled80]

might have to be Canadian for this to make sense, but I'd say hockey tape. (it's what we use on our sticks)

it's fabric, and the trick is to buy the wider version and tear it down the middle

 

[FluffyChicken]

Gaffer tape or similar is better than electrical tape as the threading reinforces it and it doesn't bend in the spoke holes, less change of a nick here and there on them plus a less deformed inner tube.

You could use a small rim size inner tube if you want to go that method, a bit like the Ghetto Tubeless MTB chaps do.

 

[Iwasgoodonce]

Thanks all! I tried inner tube and decided a spot of superglue either side of the valve hole would hold the rubber with a slight stretch to stop it moving.

Wrong! I don't think I have ever found a single material that superglue works on, (apart from human skin obviously). In fact they should just call it skinglue. Of course it didn't stick the rubber to the rim. It lubricated it if anything. Have used tape as usual.

Can't get the sodding tyre on now!

 

[hamster]

Velox cotton tape is best, although in extremis I have used insulating tape.

 

[Ian Raleigh]

Velox cotton tape is best, although in extremis I have used insulating tape.

I'll second the Velox tape too.

On my modern Wilier road bike I ended up with a puncture, as you do! but then noticed the puncture was caused
by a cheap nasty thin plastic rim tape which had cracked above a spoke hole and this was the cause, I didn't change
the inner-tube straight away but went knocking on a strangers door and ask if they have any tape, they handed
me a roll of cello-tape which I wrapped around the rim, then fitted the tube and said thanks to the chap
and when I got home ordered myself another two rolls of Velox tape and changed the cheap nasty rim tape.