Re: Folding Tire too Tight for Rim
- From: "joseph.santaniello@xxxxxxxxx" <joseph.santaniello@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 02:40:49 -0700 (PDT)
On May 31, 3:17 am, bicycle_disciple <1.crazyboy.o...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi all,
I tried this for probably 20 minutes with all the strength I can
muster. Basically trying to pull on a Deda Tre RS corsa folding
clincher 700 x 23c onto my HED Jet road rims. Folding tires are nice
but new ones are difficult to mount. I have never had so much
difficulty in the past with any tire than this one.
When it came in the box, it was nice and pancake flat and I wondered
how it'll ever attain the round shape. What I tried doing so far is to
get the tire on the rim without the tube and leaving it on there for
sometime to "stretch out". But the tube is going to be hard as hell
because I don't see any space for it to get in there anyway. Whats the
"pro" technique here, bleeding hands and skill or any less gory way
out?
B.D
A little dish-soap helps sometimes. Makes grabbing the rest of the
wheel hard if you get it all over the place, though. Nice supple tires
like those tires will loosen up a bit after they have been mounted.
Flat tires like those (and Veloflex, etc) go on nicely if you get the
first bead toward the middle, and fold the tread over in a way. So it
sort of looks like an uninflated tubular.
Make sure with nice wheels and tires like those you have tubes that
are fast too. It would be a shame to waste a combo like that with slow
tubes.
Joseph
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