The story is I stuck some superstar rim rape on my light bike carbon front rim, couldn’t get them to seal so stuck a tube in for a couple of weeks.

Now I’ve had a puncture so thought I’d take this chance to fix them so ripped off the old tape, cleaned the rims but now new tape won’t stick to the rims.

Do I need to roughen them up a bit with wire wool or something?

what did you clean the rims with? ANy oil residue (such as meths or wd40) wont help.

Stans video on fitting tubeless tape is v good, and suggests using green scourer on the rim.

a bit of grease lurking on there? I’d get the wire wool on it!

IPA or perhaps window cleaner?

Answered my own question hanks everyone, just run some wire wool over it and it sticks like shit to a blanket now.

I had I issues with stans tape on superstar carbon rims, absolutely useless, used 25mm gorilla tape at £2.99 a roll, wrapped around twice and it was spot on. Wouldn’t use anything else now.

Gorilla Tape is perfect. Good enough for pro mechanics as well.