I deflated my front tire yesterday and found that the tube was about to bust. Pics below are the 4 bad areas on the tube (2 on either side of the valve stem but 3-4 spokes away. Valve stem area had no problem). As you can these are splices. Also inc 2 photos of the rim interior. You can see the depth of it and my taping. I used a part of an old tube as a rim liner, tho it was too long so I had to end up cutting off some inches and then taping the 2 ends together. Feel free to comment.