F***ing tyres!!
Discussion
Having destroyed 2 Park Tools tyre levers, 2 tubes and exhausted my famously extensive vocabulary of expletives trying to fit ridiculously tight Schwalbe Ultremo ZX tyres, has anyone got any bright ideas on how I could complete this seemingly simple task? I'm down to my last tube...!
Edited by TheGreatSoprendo on Saturday 28th March 16:44
Watch this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-XUFVrl0UT4
Watch it again and then again. Pay attention!
It works. The straps arent really necessary but make it easier when you first start using this method.
No tyre levers required.
Very satisfying.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-XUFVrl0UT4
Watch it again and then again. Pay attention!
It works. The straps arent really necessary but make it easier when you first start using this method.
No tyre levers required.
Very satisfying.
Rob_T said:
Watch this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-XUFVrl0UT4
Watch it again and then again. Pay attention!
It works. The straps arent really necessary but make it easier when you first start using this method.
No tyre levers required.
Very satisfying.
I had high hopes for that, but alas, no joy and my last tube has just gone for a burton. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-XUFVrl0UT4
Watch it again and then again. Pay attention!
It works. The straps arent really necessary but make it easier when you first start using this method.
No tyre levers required.
Very satisfying.
Work smarter not harder
Sod using tyre levers too much you will probably get a pinch punture straight away or damage the rim if using metal ones I say this from being a knob when younger
Find someone with stronger hands or use a bit of fairy on the rim and tyre lip(as per MD)
Make sure you degrease it after
Tyres that are a pita to get on usually loosen up over a few miles of you have a puncture whilst out
Sod using tyre levers too much you will probably get a pinch punture straight away or damage the rim if using metal ones I say this from being a knob when younger
Find someone with stronger hands or use a bit of fairy on the rim and tyre lip(as per MD)
Make sure you degrease it after
Tyres that are a pita to get on usually loosen up over a few miles of you have a puncture whilst out
This is bizarre.
25 odd years ago, I got a part-time job in a cycle shop when I was 16. One of the first things the proprietor showed me, was how to fit tubes and tyres, without ever using tyre levers.
In the 25 years since, on a variety of bikes with a variety of tyres, I have never had to use tyre levers.
Maybe I've been lucky and not had any of these tight ones that other people have described, I dunno?
But if you use the right technique, in my experience they just aren't necessary.
25 odd years ago, I got a part-time job in a cycle shop when I was 16. One of the first things the proprietor showed me, was how to fit tubes and tyres, without ever using tyre levers.
In the 25 years since, on a variety of bikes with a variety of tyres, I have never had to use tyre levers.
Maybe I've been lucky and not had any of these tight ones that other people have described, I dunno?
But if you use the right technique, in my experience they just aren't necessary.
I'm not a lover of using levers but when you're on the side of the road with freezing finger sometimes you just have to, i find the orange Continental levers pretty good & i usually buy the the inner tubes along with the case .
I find these cases extremely convenient when out on a long ride & i carry 3 at all times, two with tubes & one with allen key tool, disposable gloves & spare cleat screws. I get paranoid if i don't have two tubes on me.
I find these cases extremely convenient when out on a long ride & i carry 3 at all times, two with tubes & one with allen key tool, disposable gloves & spare cleat screws. I get paranoid if i don't have two tubes on me.
Without teaching you to suck eggs, when the old fella in that video is pinching the tyre around the bottom towards the top of the wheel he's making sure the bead of the tyre is in the well and not on the bead of the wheel. Basically he's moving the slack from the bottom to the top, every few mm's can help with a tight tyre.
Also once you have the tyre 75% on the rim then let some air out of the tube (not sure if the old duffer did or not?).
I've fitted 100's of bike tyres, I do it daily for the lads at work who cycle in, sometimes you get a really tight wheel/tyre combo, I've not had one yet that I've not managed to get fitted, practise makes perfect yadder yadder...
The tyre in the video looked fairly normal, thus making it look easier than it can be sometimes.
Also once you have the tyre 75% on the rim then let some air out of the tube (not sure if the old duffer did or not?).
I've fitted 100's of bike tyres, I do it daily for the lads at work who cycle in, sometimes you get a really tight wheel/tyre combo, I've not had one yet that I've not managed to get fitted, practise makes perfect yadder yadder...
The tyre in the video looked fairly normal, thus making it look easier than it can be sometimes.
TwistingMyMelon said:
Find someone with stronger hands
CoinSl0t said:
Also once you have the tyre 75% on the rim then let some air out of the tube (not sure if the old duffer did or not?).
Thanks. The video didn't mention letting air out of the tyre, but that would definitely make sense.Anyway, I'm now awaiting the arrival of these:
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/pedros-tyre-lev...
these:
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/airwave-road-tu...
and this:
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/crank-brothers-...
so those tyres will be on next weekend by hook or by crook! Watch this space...
Edited by TheGreatSoprendo on Monday 30th March 10:35
Have you tried stretching the tyres yet ? I had to on the tubs I fitted assuming they don't have a wire rim then this also helps, the other method is to pop a tube in the tyre and blow it up to stretch the tyre.
I have not watched the vid but I am guessing it is the squat technique were they roll on the tyre bit by bit ? if so it does work just have patience
I have not watched the vid but I am guessing it is the squat technique were they roll on the tyre bit by bit ? if so it does work just have patience
mcelliott said:
TheGreatSoprendo said:
Schwalbe Ultremo ZX tyres
Sounds like you've had a lucky escape not being able to fit the tyres anyway - Schwalbe Ultremos are about the crappiest tyre you'd wish to fit to a wheel. Hopeless. Get a set of Conti GP4000s - better tyre and fit far easier.
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