Re: Armadillo leads to split valve mystery


"Erich" <erich.schlaikjer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can anyone suggest what might be wrong? Wiggle merely supposed that
the tube might not be fitting squarely. I suppose the next step is to
put the old tire back on and see what happens.

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Thanks!

It could be your tyre fitting procedure at fault:

Do you push the valve into the tyre, seat the beads around the valve and
then work your way around the rim away from the valve after putting a bit of
air in the tube to keep it in the tyre casing as you fit the reaminder of
the tyre? That should help to avoid interference between the tyre beads and
the valve and tube.

Do you also check that the tyre has not rotated whilst fitting it and that
the valve has not pulled round at an angle before fully inflating the tyre.


It could also be a duff batch of tubes. I've had the unfortunate experience
of having three consecutive tubes fail before I got as far as riding my
bike - all three with tube/valve interface failures. They were cheap
unbranded tubes.

HTH

-=V=-


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