If you have the tape and are going for a re-tape, might as well give it a couple passes to be sure. Maybe add some weather stripping or something. lol ugh. Maybe you can sorta ghetto tape it - break the seal on one side, squeeze the tire together against the other bead, and getter dun without having to leaver it off/on. Or something. I dunno. Good luck dude.
If you have a syringe on hand, you can syringe that shit out of there once you break the seal. But you likely know that.
If you DO do two passes, make sure you get high up on the rim edges. Use a Pedros lever to press it against the sides without tearing the tape.
Well there was a tiny teeny hole in the tape directly next to the rim seam. I guess I should be thankful it happened there because if the hole was anywhere else I’d likely have never found it when it eventually lost pressure tomorrow.
I cut a 6" section of stans tape and applied it over top the damaged section of tape. I don’t have enough tape for a whole wheel so I couldn’t do a full retape.
I did have to take the tire completely off to get the tape on, I lost some sealant but whatever. It was relatively quick and painless. Now to see if it holds. If not I’ll just buy some strapping tape and do the job proper.
edit: looks like I’m doing a full retape tomorrow. Leaking way less than before but still losing noticeable amounts and this time I can’t track it down. The tape that came on the wheels was noticeably thin but I figured tubeless tape is tubeless tape. I’m dumb. Just sucks/rules the front wheel is holding fine.
What sealant? I am in agreement with whomstever hypothesized that there was a bad batch of Stans floating around. My same wheels that were always leaky with Stans totally fell in line once I switched to Orange seal endurance.
Good question, can’t tell. I guess I used to complain about the Lezyne chuck too but hope they improved it slightly in the past decade. Maybe I should keep looking.
Anyone tried the new Schwalbe G-One Bite in 2.1? Thinking of replacing the thunder butts with these… edit: Done purchased, will report back in a few weeeks
You know what works really well? Stan’s (and WTB).
It’s almost as if someone took the time to get reinforced tape made in exactly the right thickness for use on a bicycle rim and then had it produced in an array of widths in 2mm increments.
actually that section held. It was probably more like 10" because, as you said, it needs tension to hold. It was another spoke hole that had gotten scuffed up, probably in the 4 months those wheels sat around my room. I figured at that point might as well retape the whole wheel.
I used 3 wraps of the 3M tape to seal a wheel and it worked. If the 3M is in a width that works for you I would just buy that.
So I recently set up a road tubeless wheel. Schwalbe Marathon Supreme TLE, Alex Adventure 2 rim, 3M tape as above, orange seal endurance. I ran the tubed version of that tire around 55-60 psi pretty happily, was gonna aim for ~55psi tubeless, is that gonna be too high?
Similarly, I had that wheel pumped up to about 55psi 9 days ago. Pressure today was around 40psi. Is that acceptable losses in the world of tubeless? I know they’re always gonna leak down, tubes or no tubes, but just wondering if I shouldn’t be putting in a little more sealant or something.