Originally Posted by
gugie
As a footnote, on my commute home from work I sometimes ride with a guy who commutes 20 miles roundtrip daily on his bike. He wears out rims yearly, so he standardized on a common rim and does the tape them together and transfer the spoke thing as shown above.
I taped the rims together for my first swap back in the 1960s. Then I realized that rim swaps are just as easy to perform without using tape.