Rubber_Buccaneer
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^ Agree with all that but the profile of these rims made your green method a right pain with a tape similar to Tessa as it wanted to wrinkle and the offset spoke holes meant I wouldn’t trust the blue method as the edge of the tape would be too close to the spoke holes.
They look like this
Ah yeah, I had chinese rims shaped like that (tbf I think Reserve were “inspired” by them much as Specialized admit they were inspired by Lightbicycle and Enve blatantly were) and they’re great in how they lock up the bead, but there was definitely a tradeoff in the taping. Can’t actually remember what I ended up doing with those but I had more failures on tyre changing than anything else I can think of. Bike got nicked, possibly I never got a complrtely happy result on the tape.
