Spotlight: Frame Wrap
Frame Wrap
Sometimes it’s the little things that count. Frame Wrap wraps around frames / chainstays and adheres to itself so theres no need for zipties or slippery tubes. See more about it inside.
Frame Wrap is a rubber cush tape that is formulated to adhere to itself without leaving any sticky residue on your frame. It works as advertised and we’ve been using it on a few of our builds lately in certain areas. On our M6 its very nice as you can wrap the vertical strut easily with the tape to avoid any chain rub. No zip ties are needed at all so it looks quite clean once installed.
wrapped M6 frame strut (click to enlarge)
It is more expensive than using an old tube but it holds its shape perfectly without the need for any zip ties or electrical tape. Because it sticks to itself and is flexible you can get a nice tight chainwrap. It’s easy to wrap any chainstay and looks like it was molded specifically for the bike without zipties or cutting up an old tube.
The Frame Wrap is quick and easy to apply and comes in two size rolls similar to a roll of tape (5 feet or 15 feet). It adheres to itself but doesn’t stick to the frame so when its time to replace or remove the wrap it cuts off without any trace. It cuts with a pair of scissors and requires no additional tools to install.
(click to enlarge)
The wrap is quite flexible and plyable so it’s easy to wrap it around odd shapes should you need to. Once it is overalaped onto itself, it essentially forms one piece. Should it get worn out in any one place you can easily add a little strip to it as it will bond together. When you feel its ready to replace or take off there is no residue left, you just cut it off. It’s a nice clean system.
MSRP:
- $10 for 5 feet
- $20 for 5ft roll + 15 ft roll
You can purchase frame wrap at RideSfo or directly from Frame Wrap’s website.
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Just ordered a 15′ roll from their website, no shipping charges. I really think this is a good idea, Thanks for the review.
Just ordered a row too, gonna use it to wrap my dog to the chainstay, won’t adhere to his fur
This isn’t anything revolutionary, if you do a quick google search, you fill find the same product everywhere. It can be called a few things including “Self-Vulcanizing tape” or “Silicone tape”
Can you run that on the chainstay to prevent chain-slap like a Lizard Skin??
Andrew P - Yea you can find similar products out there.
Packeteer, yes you can run it on a chainstay to prevent chainslap.
Hey Andrew P -
your right - it’s no secret that there are many self adhering tapes out there -we’ve tested many of them ourselves. The synthetic rubber tape that we sell as frame wrap has worked best for us. When we tested silicone based tapes like the ones you mentioned above we found that they tear easily even with a thicker mil density. Just want to represent that our product is not silicone.
I bought this at Canadian Tire for 1/3 the price to fix a leak in a cracked drain pipe. It’s just self sealing butyl tape.
It didn’t take long to find 20ft rolls of the same material available online for 5.99
It doesn’t have a nifty logo made of chainlinks though…
Looks neat but road handlbar tape does a mighty fine job as well.
I have been looking for this stuff for years. Saw it at a motorcycle show, they called it F-14 tape and it was hella spendy.
Rad. Still haven’t found anything more about the legendary motofoam used frequently on Hill’s bikes to keep dirt out and dampen vibrations. Anyone know about this? I want to a local moto shop and they didn’t have any clue…
The motofoam is probably closed-cell foam that doesn’t absorb water. It’s nothing particularly special.
Any foam short of an absorbent sponge material should work just fine for you.
Ordered, if sicklines says it works I believe it.
You can get “motofoam” at most aquatic pet shops. It’s essentially coarse foam used in filters and can be bought quite cheaply in bulk.
RE: Motofoam…
http://www.rideology.net/motofoam/
how well does it absorb noise? it looks pretty thin and the space to put shit to stop chain slap is pretty tight on my 2009 commencal, the chain is very close the to chainstay so a tube/bar tape isnt working very well.
does it absorb aswell as a tube/bar tape or is it just for protection?
Shaun, you can wrap the framewrap as thick as you like by metering the overalap when applying it (or even double it up if you want). It deadens the noise pretty well, obviously the thicker the wrap you can do the better to deaden the noise. We also like using velcro (the non abrasive side) on our builds as well that works quite well.
yeah i’ve looked at the velcro option
how do you stick it on to the frame? while been able to remove it afterwards (talking about the velcro) and what’s the durability of velcro like? i wouldn’t expect it to last very long and you’d have to keep reapplying it which i would expect to be a pain because you’d have to reglue it
is this tape available in other colours?