These are wheels from a 2020 Norco bigfoot 2 with SB-T80 TR 26″ 32H wheels. Can I just lay some Whisky Tubeless 80mm rim tape over this? Pls help! I’m mounting 45N tires to them. Thx.
Yes. You can also swap out the rim strip with 3M reflective tape and make it your own style.
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you can, but you’re probably going to get mixed results to was tape is not that sticky. I have tried multiple combinations to do tubeless on fat bikes in my shop. The best thing I have come up with is if you’ve got a good quality rim strip, I use duct tape or gorilla tape. I generally run one strip across each side and one strip down the middle and they overlap. I try to go all the way out to the edge of the bead get this as tight and as smooth as you can all the way around. After that, I then use the tubeless tape, on top of the gorilla tape, this gives me a good bed for adhesion of my tubeless tape. If you lay the two buzz tape over your rim strip as you air it up as you know, the rim strip kind of pushes out of the holes a little bit if your rim has the big holes cut out in the rim to make it lighter. This is going to cause the tables tape to pull away from the rim strip and cause leakage issues over time. I would do two wraps of rim, tape/tubeless tape. The whiskey is good are use sun or whiskey. Both are good. Make sure you’re pulling that tape very tight and get it as smooth as you possibly can remember constant tension. If your fingers are numb after you’re done, you probably pull tight enough. Then install the tires mix up some soapy water and soap the beads down, put one of your tubes back in the tire pump it up until the beads, completely seat fully on the rim then very carefully let all the air out of the tube slowly, and then carefully on the one side of the tire being very careful not to undo the other, pull the tube out, install your valve core, and then on top of a 5 gallon bucket or something with the side of the tire that you just put back on the undefeated side facing down hit it with an air compressor and also it helps if you spray some soapy water on that side again, get the tire to beat up completely and tight then go back through the valve core with a tubeless injector and injector sealant on a new tire. I use about 9 ounces for a 4 inch wide tire. I prefer orange seal endurance as it last longer and I really don’t want to redo the two boys after six months. This is work for me multiple times and it is the best set up I have seen so far. As far as durability and longevity.
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Yes. You can also swap out the rim strip with 3M reflective tape and make it your own style.
Yes
you can, but you’re probably going to get mixed results to was tape is not that sticky. I have tried multiple combinations to do tubeless on fat bikes in my shop. The best thing I have come up with is if you’ve got a good quality rim strip, I use duct tape or gorilla tape. I generally run one strip across each side and one strip down the middle and they overlap. I try to go all the way out to the edge of the bead get this as tight and as smooth as you can all the way around. After that, I then use the tubeless tape, on top of the gorilla tape, this gives me a good bed for adhesion of my tubeless tape. If you lay the two buzz tape over your rim strip as you air it up as you know, the rim strip kind of pushes out of the holes a little bit if your rim has the big holes cut out in the rim to make it lighter. This is going to cause the tables tape to pull away from the rim strip and cause leakage issues over time. I would do two wraps of rim, tape/tubeless tape. The whiskey is good are use sun or whiskey. Both are good. Make sure you’re pulling that tape very tight and get it as smooth as you possibly can remember constant tension. If your fingers are numb after you’re done, you probably pull tight enough. Then install the tires mix up some soapy water and soap the beads down, put one of your tubes back in the tire pump it up until the beads, completely seat fully on the rim then very carefully let all the air out of the tube slowly, and then carefully on the one side of the tire being very careful not to undo the other, pull the tube out, install your valve core, and then on top of a 5 gallon bucket or something with the side of the tire that you just put back on the undefeated side facing down hit it with an air compressor and also it helps if you spray some soapy water on that side again, get the tire to beat up completely and tight then go back through the valve core with a tubeless injector and injector sealant on a new tire. I use about 9 ounces for a 4 inch wide tire. I prefer orange seal endurance as it last longer and I really don’t want to redo the two boys after six months. This is work for me multiple times and it is the best set up I have seen so far. As far as durability and longevity.