A ridiculously specific question - but wisdom of crowds, long tails, and all that...
Last week I drove a couple of hours to go bikepacking in the northern Pennines only to find on my arrival there that my front tyre was now flat and when I found the hole it wouldn't seal with either just sealant or a plug. I went hill walking instead which, while nice was really what I had gone for.
I had actually already bought a new tire to replace the now flat quite elderly one, but when I tried removing the current one a couple of months ago it was such a fight I ran out of time so just I gave up: adding more fresh sealant and pumped it back up again. But my original diagnosis that it was a) old and b) pretty knackered I suspect was right all along and the failed bikepack showed this. So today, I actually removed the old tire and decided while I was at it I'd remove the old rim tape as well and start fresh for the new tire and hopefully get another 4 years of trouble free riding out it.
But removing the wraps of Gorilla Tape that I had used as rim tape has left lots of glue on the rims - particularly under the hook of the rim, where the bead of the tire sits. I think this might have been in part why it was so hard to get the old tire off the rims. Is there anything which is likely to help me get all the glue off beyond elbow grease and bloody-mindedness? Some kind of solvent? White spirit or meths maybe?
Tubeless tires - bloody brilliant 99% of the time. Deeply deeply annoying the other 1%!
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