Do you have trouble seating tubeless tires on your bike wheels? Check out this idea using a cam buckle strap.
An eight [8] foot strap will handle road, gravel or CX tires. I like polypropylene webbing for this application, it doesn’t slide off the tire as easily as nylon and it is less expensive.
One of the more useful straps we sell is the Cam Buckle Strap. They offer everything one might want out of a strap:
⇒ strong
⇒ easy to use
⇒ affordable
I carry a number of these in my truck to secure loads and some times they even are used to secure garbage cans.
For 2021 we have changed the cam buckle used in our straps. It is now a zinc coated steel buckle which is much stronger than what we previously used.
It has a breaking strength of 1100 pounds and buying them in volume has allowed us to upgrade the webbing we use to a much stronger grade at the same pricing.
Our nylon straps are available in black, royal blue (shown above), red and yellow. The webbing has a breaking strength of 2750 pounds although the weak point on the strap is the buckle. The raw end is cut at an angle to make insertion into the buckle simple and it is heat sealed.
The polypropylene version only comes in black and the webbing has a breaking strength of 800 pounds. There isn’t much of a price difference between the nylon and polypropylene version, it boils down to which webbing is best for your application.
Cam Buckle StrapsBoth of these models are much superior to what we have been able to offer in the past with no increase in price. Give them a try, I think you will like them.
Cam buckle straps with heavyweight nylon webbing are just the ticket for securing luggage on your roof rack. Each summer we take a bicycling trip with a group of friends and usually our luggage carrier is overloaded. We have tried getting the group to pack less but that has had minimal success. It has been easier to pile the extra luggage on the roof and secure it with cam buckle straps.
Actually these are the same straps that I use when repairing chairs, heavy weight nylon webbing and metal buckles.
We sell these straps with several choices of webbing colors. They are all made to order so we can set them up to meet your needs. Just give us a call at (253) 883-5800 and we will work with you to get them just right.
If you need something stronger we have ratchet buckles although they are not as easy to adjust.
I am in favor of using more straps rather than one or two super strong models. The last thing I want to do is damage the roof rack.
