# Souplesse Casings and Bike Soup - The Tire Thread
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [August 1, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52 "2018-08-01T11:55:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@turpentine](https://tarck.cc/u/turpentine)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 11:31am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/81 "2018-08-14T11:31:50Z")
What tire width?
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Jart\_Attack\_PhD](https://tarck.cc/u/Dr_Jart_Attack_PhD)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 12:33pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/82 "2018-08-14T12:33:11Z")
> [@turpentine](#):
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> What tire width?
Ahh yeah 700c x 40. I didn’t measure but I think it comes out a little wider than that.
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### Author:  [@Rusty\_Piton](https://tarck.cc/u/Rusty_Piton)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/83 "2018-08-14T13:40:57Z")
So yesterday I got the first stopper flat I’ve had on a tubeless tire that wasn’t because of a faulty tubeless setup. I tried to pool the sealant at the puncture, but nothing happened so I broke the bead and found that there was just a residue of sealant left in there so I put in a tube.
When I got home yesterday evening, I pulled the tube, dumped a bunch of Stan’s Race in the tire and reseated the bead with a compressor.
At first it was hissing and I thought that it was going to be annoying and complicated until I took the wheel out of the stand and shook it up. As soon as the sealant reached the puncture, it squirted out the hole and hit the ceiling for half a second and then sealed completely.
Then it didn’t loose any air over night and I rode it to work this morning.
That Stan’s Race shit works!
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### Author:  [@jdsmooth](https://tarck.cc/u/jdsmooth)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/84 "2018-08-14T15:20:50Z")
healing power of crystals
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Jart\_Attack\_PhD](https://tarck.cc/u/Dr_Jart_Attack_PhD)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/85 "2018-08-14T15:48:28Z")
Rode to work on my tubeless rear wheel, didn’t die! But I also think I left my security skewer allen key in my garage so 🤞 that my setup lasts through the day lol
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Squirrel](https://tarck.cc/u/Andrew_Squirrel)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/86 "2018-08-14T16:35:41Z")
> [@Rusty\_Piton](#):
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> I dunno about the clear stuff.
> This is the exact shit that I’ve used extensively:
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> [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C0Z1Z5C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
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> 
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> ### [Amazon.com: Scotch Film Strapping Tape 8896: Industrial & Scientific](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C0Z1Z5C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
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> Scotch Filament Tape 8896 is a blue, tensilized polypropylene backing with a synthetic rubber resin adhesive.
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> As far as I can tell, the only difference between this and Stan’s is the color and the price.
+1 This stuff works amazing for my 22mm inner width crabon rims. Great length to $ value. A++ would recommend. I originally thought 24mm would be too wide and need trimming to fit the 22mm but the depth dimension of the curved rim bed uses the extra 2mm to make it the perfect size.
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### Author:  [@BEEutiful\_Wednesday\_DDS](https://tarck.cc/u/BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/87 "2018-08-15T01:13:08Z")
this is my method as well. unfortunately sometimes if i don’t have a good seat, the bead will fall off the shoulder when i drop the pressure. then i know i need more tape.
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### Author:  [@todd\_bonzalez](https://tarck.cc/u/todd_bonzalez)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/88 "2018-08-15T14:29:39Z")
Dude I know we’re both in the business of selling bicycle specific components, but this stuff is literally identical to name brand tubeless tapes in every single way, right down to the width, and a single roll will last a home user for years.
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### Author:  [@ergott](https://tarck.cc/u/ergott)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/89 "2018-08-15T14:45:42Z")
The blue is noticeably thinner than the yellow. Another difference is that there’s a film on the blue that makes it harder for me to press into the center channel as I stretch it around rim. It grabs the rag and is very annoying. I buy the yellow in bulk from some UK ebay seller.
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### Author:  [@Rusty\_Piton](https://tarck.cc/u/Rusty_Piton)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/90 "2018-08-15T14:49:23Z")
> [@ergott](#):
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> there’s a film on the blue that makes it harder for me to press into the center channel as I stretch it around rim. It grabs the rag and is very annoying
I have not noticed this at all.
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### Author:  [@dotMR](https://tarck.cc/u/dotMR)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/91 "2018-08-15T15:07:22Z")
Noticed a number of people talking about sealant injectors in another thread:
I’m due for my first top-up soon - is it stupid to just break the bead on one side and dump more?
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### Author:  [@turpentine](https://tarck.cc/u/turpentine)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/92 "2018-08-15T15:36:44Z")
Yes. Because then you need to reseat the bead with pressure. If you put it in the air hole you can get away with a hand pump usually.
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### Author:  [@Straws](https://tarck.cc/u/Straws)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/93 "2018-08-15T15:36:50Z")
Yes. Just remove the core and use one of the 2oz stans bottles to top up
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### Author:  [@Dickason\_Daniel](https://tarck.cc/u/Dickason_Daniel)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/94 "2018-08-15T15:39:45Z")
tbh I pop the bead and use the compressor. yo. lo.
Once I bought that Harbor Freight pancake boi, believe I’m using it.
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### Author:  [@dfl](https://tarck.cc/u/dfl)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/95 "2018-08-15T15:53:42Z")
That just seems harder, though. I just pour sealant from the big Stan’s bottle into a little 3 oz travel squeezy travel bottle with a nozzle that I got at Walgreen’s for like $1.50. The nozzle goes into the valve stem (with core removed) and it’s pretty clean.
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### Author:  [@tehschkott](https://tarck.cc/u/tehschkott)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/96 "2018-08-15T16:16:12Z")
> [@dfl](#):
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> That just seems harder, though. I just pour sealant from the big Stan’s bottle into a little 3 oz travel squeezy travel bottle with a nozzle that I got at Walgreen’s for like $1.50. The nozzle goes into the valve stem (with core removed) and it’s pretty clean.
This
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### Author:  [@Crustradamus](https://tarck.cc/u/Crustradamus)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/97 "2018-08-15T16:23:57Z")
> [@ergott](#):
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> The blue is noticeably thinner than the yellow. Another difference is that there’s a film on the blue that makes it harder for me to press into the center channel as I stretch it around rim. It grabs the rag and is very annoying. I buy the yellow in bulk from some UK ebay seller.
So I’ve never needed to do more than one layer with gorilla tape. Am I going to need to do multiple wraps with the “ivory” stuff?
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### Author:  [@Dickason\_Daniel](https://tarck.cc/u/Dickason_Daniel)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/98 "2018-08-15T16:48:42Z")
yeah but I spend no time transferring milk from a larger container to a smaller container, and zero time removing and re-installing a valve stem… so 🤷♂️
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### Author:  [@turpentine](https://tarck.cc/u/turpentine)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/99 "2018-08-15T17:04:00Z")
But you spend time seating and unseating the bead. Which can be quick or a nightmare depending on the tire.
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### Author:  [@ergott](https://tarck.cc/u/ergott)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/souplesse-casings-and-bike-soup-the-tire-thread/52/100 "2018-08-15T17:57:14Z")
> [@Crustradamus](#):
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> Am I going to need to do multiple wraps with the “ivory” stuff?
two time around. Still lighter than almost any other option. Only add more layers if you need to build up rim.
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