Replacing Surly rim strips
The bulging of the Surly rim strips in the Rabbit Hole rims was driving me a bit crazy. At 2.5 bars it was just too much -- I'm sure it would have been structurally fine, but it annoyed me.
I used a layer of red and silver reflective tape, covered in two layers of Gorilla Tape.
I went to a local hardware store (Breed & Co., an ACE franchisee of sorts) and they only had adhesive tape, in something like 2 inches or 50 mm.
To keep from being wasteful, I cut the tape in half, which was enough to cover the rim cutouts, if I lined it up perfectly (I did not). Given the tape was adhesive, I had the extra fun of removing backing and getting the tape as tight and centered as possible, before two tight layers of Gorilla Tape. I know a non-adhesive version of the reflective tape exists, and I’ll use it when I eventually redo these wheels. I hope it will be in longer lengths so I don’t have as many seams also.
Aside from seams showing, and some less-than-perfect alignment, I think it looks nice. It's certainly better than the giant bulges before and it adds a bit of reflectiveness.
The Schwalbe Marathon Mondial 26 x 2.15 have a good shape on these rims, and the tired just roll over everything so nicely.
Replacing Surly rim strips
The bulging of the Surly rim strips in the Rabbit Hole rims was driving me a bit crazy. At 2.5 bars it was just too much -- I'm sure it would have been structurally fine, but it annoyed me.
I used a layer of red and silver reflective tape, covered in two layers of Gorilla Tape.
I went to a local hardware store (Breed & Co., an ACE franchisee of sorts) and they only had adhesive tape, in something like 2 inches or 50 mm.
To keep from being wasteful, I cut the tape in half, which was enough to cover the rim cutouts, if I lined it up perfectly (I did not). Given the tape was adhesive, I had the extra fun of removing backing and getting the tape as tight and centered as possible, before two tight layers of Gorilla Tape. I know a non-adhesive version of the reflective tape exists, and I’ll use it when I eventually redo these wheels. I hope it will be in longer lengths so I don’t have as many seams also.
Aside from seams showing, and some less-than-perfect alignment, I think it looks nice. It's certainly better than the giant bulges before and it adds a bit of reflectiveness.
The Schwalbe Marathon Mondial 26 x 2.15 have a good shape on these rims, and the tired just roll over everything so nicely.