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Old 06-01-14 | 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by seely
This brings up a good point... with the A23's tubeless-ready design, we do NOT recommend using cloth rim tape or Veloplugs. The inner profile of the rim is shaped differently and it will make tire mounting much more difficult with the thicker cloth tape vs. two layers of our Velotape or something similar (like Stan's). I do have a few rolls of a synthetic fiber "cloth" tape that I use at home which has proven to be an excellent alternative. It's nearly as thin as our Velotape and incredibly strong... the only downside is I picked it up at a surplus store, and have no idea what its called or who makes it! Glad I got three large rolls...
Zipp makes a nice, thin, polycloth rim strip.
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