Souplesse Casings and Bike Soup - The Tire Thread

I heard gorilla tape works really well have you considered gorilla tape.

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I used gorilla glue and havenā€™t had a flat yet. Ride quality is subpar but Iā€™m on gators so it could just be that.

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@Crustradamus just to be clear weā€™re not being mean. I have used gorilla tape in quite a few wheels. It works damn fucking well.

If you want something thicker, Schwalbeā€™s tape is it

Itā€™s got a black rubbery adhesive layer underneath a blue slippery tensile exterior

Youā€™re fucking with us, right?

Gorilla tape is better than Tuffy strips for flat protection

Really liking these 650B x 47 Teravail Ramparts. Havenā€™t tried the similarly sized Compass or Gravelkings, but was impressed with how easily the Teravails set up tubeless (floor pump, two ounces of sealant).

Please tell us youā€™ve got em tubeless on 23ā€™s or 19ā€™s
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have you tried the horizons though? you copped the light n supple, yeah?

Iā€™ve ridden OE Horizons (with tubes). Seemed OK, but I havenā€™t ridden the aftermarket ones. My Ramparts are the L/S version.

Why the hell are Horizons so noisy on paved surfaces? Other than mtb knobbies on pavement, theyā€™re the noisiest tire Iā€™ve ever used. Thick ass rubber?

Iā€™ve been riding these tires almost exclusively for two years and I havenā€™t noticed any more noise than usual.

haha no Iā€™m fine. Just trying to compare two things that work, one which I have experience with and one with which I do not. I just realized late last night that doing a carbon rim might be vastly different than aluminum due to the adhevise properties of each of these (and hey maybe thatā€™s why enve uses or used gorilla tape?). Only issue I ever had with gorilla tape was the edges peeling up when taking off an old tire. But I do notice that it seems to get a bit soaked with sealant so thought I should try the other options and see if anything changes. One layer of each sounds intriguing to me for that reason.

Never had to scrape a rim and never found pieces of tape in my tire (wtf).

Thanks for the Schwalbe tip @JUGE_FREDD . My girlfriendā€™s Orbea mtb came with some oem wheels that have a thick rubber rim strip inside. That seems like a pretty robust solution but I donā€™t know who sells such things. Maybe the Schwalbe stuff approaches it in terms of durability and feel.

Oh absolutely. But I would put money down that someone out there has tried it.

this is true. why are we taping shit meticulously when what would basically amount to a giant ~600mm diameter rubber band would do the job?

Yours are the older tan sidewalls? Mine are the more orangey ones, bought last fall.