Noisy valve stem on carbon wheels
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I understand you have to defend your product but that pretty much is the same results I get with high quality 3M electrical tape. And, given I live and ride in Minnesota, that includes temperature extremes as well.
there’s benefit in the shape and in protection against cheap adhesives/tape but still - tape works just fine.
there’s benefit in the shape and in protection against cheap adhesives/tape but still - tape works just fine.
Keep in mind that we were sponsoring and I was running a team at that time, so we are talking about roughly 20 sets of wheels at the same time. Checking/replacing tape every week started to get annoying. As they say, annoyance is the mother of invention.
They are made from the same material/adhesives as decals that come on rims (all the flashy branding and flames, for example); They won't let go.
FYI-We don't even make them anymore. We used to sell them for $1.99 but with the cost of shipping, it made them far too expensive as a stand-alone item. It was fine if you added them in with another purchase but ordered by themselves it was ridiculously expensive. I was honestly surprised to see that Bikeman still had some.
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Um....Tubeless valve stems are threaded...
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Silca valve extenders or small piece of electrical tape with a hole to insert and restrain the valve
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toothpick in RIM hole alongside the stem. In most carbon wheels that‘a no where near the tube. You wind up with 1-3mm long wood sliver that stops the stem from moving and is about the thickness of the carbon layup. I’ve probably got well over 10,000 miles on wheels doing it this way.
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Another zombie thread brought back by a newbie. Why does this happen so often?
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no. what did you think I meant?
toothpick in RIM hole alongside the stem. In most carbon wheels that‘a no where near the tube. You wind up with 1-3mm long wood sliver that stops the stem from moving and is about the thickness of the carbon layup. I’ve probably got well over 10,000 miles on wheels doing it this way.
toothpick in RIM hole alongside the stem. In most carbon wheels that‘a no where near the tube. You wind up with 1-3mm long wood sliver that stops the stem from moving and is about the thickness of the carbon layup. I’ve probably got well over 10,000 miles on wheels doing it this way.
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It seem half the time they're telling new people to search rather than start a new thread for a topic that's been discussed many times before, and the other half they're complaining about reviving old threads.
A novel idea would be to just ignore threads you don't want to participate in rather than joining in just to complain about how/what others want to discuss.
And on the actual topic: I use the nuts on my threaded valve stems, on my carbon wheels and don't worry about what anyone else thinks about it. Yep I use valve stem caps too.... I trust the engineers who design products over than those who do stuff to look cool because others told them its the way...
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Tubes do come with silicone or rubber o-rings, but painters tape or electrical tape