Several years of using Gorilla Tape as rim tape

If adhesive is left on the rim you can spray with a degreaser or isopropyl alcohol and rub the adhesive into a ball, roll it on the rest and repeat elsewhere if needed.

Pros

• easy to get, sold by many retailers, like department stores and bicycle retailers.
• Robust tape, does not tear easily easy to remove, as long as you do it slowly and carefully, then you leave minimal glue behind. As you can see in the examples:

Slow and careful removal. Hope Tech Enduro 29 23mm

Fast and brutal removal. Rims: Hope Tech Enduro 29 23mm

• Nice to use the tape to attach the remote control cable for the Exposure SixPack lantern to the handlebars.
• 25 mm x 9 m is perfect for taping 30 mm DT Swiss FR560 and H552 rims if you tape one side then the other.
• But haven’t tried taping only the middle yet.
• Nice watch for many uses.

Marking the seat rails to reset the saddle in the same position easily without any guesswork or doing the adjustment process all over again.

Fixed molti-tool sleeve

Keeping the zip ties and mudguard better in place and protecting the frame from wear from my shoes and the mudguard. not pretty but does the job.

Gorilla tape on the hand pump in case I snap something on my bike or tear a jacket or other clothing.

Cons

• It doesn’t seal right away, even though I do a perfect job of taping. Shaking the wheel helps but doesn’t seal, but after a long bike ride it stops leaking. This is despite looking waterproof even when stretching it, I could not see trough it. Several people have mentioned Gorilla tape does not seal up as well as a real rim tape. I guess this is due to the holes it has, , I’ve held the tape up to light and I could see trough the tape, so no wonder it lets air trough, stretchered I barely can see trough it, but stretched I can see trough it better. So this is why people told me to not stretch it too much I guess. I tried to not stretch it too much, but keep it tight enough to lay it down properly. Sometimes it held for longer than others, probably due to variation in how much I stretched it. But a long ride always helped to seal it up.

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Verdict

The tape clearly is not optimal as a rim tape, but if you have to, can’t get other proper rim tape, then this can work as a bodge, but it can take some time before it seals good enough, so take a ride to make it seal. Butt if you want something that seals straight away use real rim tape or a tape that has the same properties, sealing completely.

Schwalbe rim tape Long Term Review

I used my last bit of rim tape but the adhesive failed to hold it in place.

The tape tears easily  the adhesive is awful,

Good I had Cush Core or I might have dented the rim when jumping 6 steps of stairs, I Knew I had more I would have wrapped it two full turns but I did not have more, which I usually do, I later found some more tape, but it failed too, but the rim tape was pealing & the air leaked quite fast.

The adhesive is awful, it tries fast, and fail to hold the tape in place, the tape moves & wrinkles, and misalign, I get air bubbles, sealant leaking from rim holes.

I had to remove it due to bad glue, For some reason, the shop sent me rolls just in carton packaging, without any bag so the glue was bad. but the last time I got them they were in plastic bags and were easier to put on, but still a horrible experience.

Verdict:

I won’t use it again, I will try other alternatives, I will test Gorilla Tape next.