Originally Posted by
RoCou
I beg to disagree. There are tons of low-cost wheels delivered with thin shrink-wrap-type rim tape; that does not mean it's the best. I've ridden my n-1 road bike of its (absurd) tendency to flat by chucking out the original thin plastic tape and putting Velox in there - did not have a single flat after that, most of them were caused by the tape letting the inner tube get too comfy with the spoke nipples.
Sounds like you’re talking about single-wall rims, not the modern tubeless-ready double-wall kind we’re discussing in this thread. Velox is fine in single-wall rims because the open center channel gives you plenty of room to mount tires no matter what tape you use. I’ve had good results with tubeless tape in single-wall rims, too, but it’s important that the spoke ends are trimmed/ground flush with the nipple heads. (That’s good practice with Velox tape, as well.)