Non Folding Tyres - can't get it onto my wheel - and tips ?

Fuzz Monkey Five

I just bought a Specialized Resolution Pro non-folding tyre at the weekend as my LBS didn't have any folding ones in stock - and I just can not get it onto my wheel.

I get one side on OK, then when I put the othrr side on I get about 85% of it on the wheel but the remainder just won't push on.

Any ideas ?WHo else used non folding tyres - how do you get them on ?

nicklouse

big tyre levers.

Fuzz Monkey Five

I've got a set of 'typical' Park Tools blue plastic ones, these ones....
http://www.evanscycles.com/product.jsp?style=10775

I've never seen bigger ones that these though.

nicklouse

then make sure the beads are in the well.

there are lots of bigger levers out there. Park and pedros do bigger ones.

robbiemagic

A trick i use is to spray some water onto the bead / tyre wall and this usually makes it more flexible

Fuzz Monkey Five

robbiemagic wrote:

A trick i use is to spray some water onto the bead / tyre wall and this usually makes it more flexible

That sounds interesting, I'll give it a go this evening - thanks for tip.

mediamonkey

Yeah, I'd be careful using tyre levers to put a tyre on as it is all too easy to pinch the tube as you get the last little bit of beading on. Of course you don't notice at the time, so as you finally get the tyre on with a great feeling of satisfaction it's a bit deflating (!) to pump up the new tyre and hear that telltale "hisssssssssss" straight away. So then you have to do it all over again... :x

Do I speak from experience? What makes you think that? :roll:

The Big Cheese

I found to my detriment the other day how tough this can be.

I was trying to get some folding Intense 909 DH/EX dual ply tyres onto my deemax.

It took me 20 mins to get the first one on - it was a b*stard!

Neat washing up liquid applied to rim and to bead of tyre worked a treat and zen-like skill with the tyre levers....

I use park tools ones but they were at snapping point

god1406

my old Ditch Witch rims and Tioga tyres were a biatch of a combination.

When you've nearly got it on the rim, work round the bits that are already on the rim and push them against the rim wall on the opposite side, all the way round. Then just work away at the remaining bit with your thumbs.

skyliner

Instead of using your thumbs to work the tyre on, face the unseated side away from you, then grab the edges you want to seat in your palms, and roll them towards your body like a motorbike twistgrip. you'll be rolling the tube away from the rim flange at the same time. Just keep moving your hands in and rolling till they meet, then you've got the strength of both hands for the last bit.

Marjory Stewart BAxtor

I've had the same trouble before. You need to take off a section of the rim. any hardware store will do a cheap angle grinder

steelo

I've had the same trouble before. You need to take off a section of the rim. any hardware store will do a cheap angle grinder

That is crazy talk, don't do that!

pemsey

Old bar of soap does the job (the skinny used up bit that normaaly get chucked away)- it's quite handy to have one in the pack anyway for cleaning up and for when you can't get the tyre back on after the inevitable puncture - you can guarantee the puncture will be in the "difficult"tyre!!

gavmac

I used to make the mistake of seating the bead properly for the first half of the tyre, now I drop it right into the middle of the rim before it tightens up which gives much more slack for the last push. I rarely use levers to get a tyre back on now.

KonaMike

gavmac wrote:

I used to make the mistake of seating the bead properly for the first half of the tyre, now I drop it right into the middle of the rim before it tightens up which gives much more slack for the last push. I rarely use levers to get a tyre back on now.

Yep thats good advice,I used to have terrible trouble with the last few inches of tyre on my rims but as said above,if you drop the tyre into the centre of the rim rather than partly seating the bead then it will go on by hand in most cases.