Originally Posted by
Drillium Dude
No, I got that. Somewhere along the lines, in one post or another, the idea got mixed up; rest assured the area I will leave sans tape will be across from the valve and not at the valve itself
I do have the second set of Mavic SSCs but I'm going to wait until I have to take one of the taped tires off and see what happens. If that results in a clean removal without tearing off the base tape or worse, I may just stick with the tape. Personally I want to stick with a single approach so, sad to say, I may never actually go with glue - but never say never.
DD
For me, the glue holding the base tape to the tire needs to be stronger than the glue holding the base tape to the rim. If this is not the case, then when you pull your tire off of the rim, where the base tape ends up is anybody's guess. This is not how tubulars are expected to be used. I don't beleive the base tape is supposed to be sacrificial.
This also tells me we do not want the rim cement to be the strongest possible adhesive.
I need to search - I used to have a set of papers on tubular glueing, which also talked about base tape attachment.