Brompton rim tape

[rogerzilla]

What do people use for the new-style rims with a wear indicator groove?  The blue stuff SJSC sent me is too wide for the "well" and doesn't work at all.  I've put four layers of electrical insulating tape on for now (which will probably hold up fine, since there aren't any spoke holes, just potentially prickly nipples and spoke ends).

[andygates]

Skinny Velox cloth tape, cut to size.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

The insulation tape will work well, until you do a very long twisty descent, when it will melt through from braking (done that on the front wheel of a Moulton coming down the Great Dividing Range).  The cut-down Velox is the permanent solution.

[rogerzilla]

I hate Velox rim tape.  It soaks up water and it's too thick, making tyre fitting a right pain.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Velox doesn't much affect tyre fitting on a channel-section rim.

[andygates]

I hate Velox rim tape.  It soaks up water and it's too thick, making tyre fitting a right pain.

Blasphemer!

[bikenerd]

If they're like the Alesa rims on my Moulton APB: file down any sticky out spoke parts.  I failed to do this and two layers of electrical tape + velox tape still resulted in a p*ncture when the spoke poked through the tape into the tube!
Although I do ride my APB down bridleways.  Which is why the headset is knackered!