NickNick
Well-Known Member
About a week ago I had a flat, nothing had come through the tyre and on closer inspection I realised that over every spoke hole (not sure if correct term?) the rim tape had caved in and the inner tube had little dome shaped protrusions above every spoke.
I patched the tube up in the billowing wind outside Brighton station and when I got home a couple of days later I replaced the rim tape with a spare I had. About half an hour ago the front wheel rapidly deflated while I was standing next to it, its been locked up outside and not used for last couple of days, so it seemed a bit odd for it to have a sudden puncture!
I've taken the tyre of and got the tube out and the new rim tape is in the same state as the old one. It was a cheap ebay purchase so didn't expect it to be the longest lasting but a week seems rediculous.
Is it normal for cheap tape to fail so quickly? Or is it something to do with the rim? The holes are pretty big, 8-9mm diameter and its the rim that came with my old Ammaco bike which was riddled with bad quality components (the rear one is already dead and has been replaced by a shimano wheel) so I wouldn't be surprised if they are as much of a problem as the cheap tape.
I patched the tube up in the billowing wind outside Brighton station and when I got home a couple of days later I replaced the rim tape with a spare I had. About half an hour ago the front wheel rapidly deflated while I was standing next to it, its been locked up outside and not used for last couple of days, so it seemed a bit odd for it to have a sudden puncture!
I've taken the tyre of and got the tube out and the new rim tape is in the same state as the old one. It was a cheap ebay purchase so didn't expect it to be the longest lasting but a week seems rediculous.
Is it normal for cheap tape to fail so quickly? Or is it something to do with the rim? The holes are pretty big, 8-9mm diameter and its the rim that came with my old Ammaco bike which was riddled with bad quality components (the rear one is already dead and has been replaced by a shimano wheel) so I wouldn't be surprised if they are as much of a problem as the cheap tape.