Bontrager Rhythm Wheel & Jones XR Tire Problem

DunbarKev
DunbarKev Posts: 29
edited August 2009 in MTB workshop & tech
Yesterday on the Phoenix trail at Mabie I picked up a puncture. I fixed it and carried on but when I finished I noticed that the tire is not quiet sitting correctly around the rim of the wheel. 50% of the tire is seated tight against the wheel but the other 50% has not 'popped' in to place.

Hopefully I have given enough info for you to understand my problem. I am sure it does not impact the riding of the bike but it does give the back wheel a very annoying wobble when I spin it round.

The wheel and tire are tubless ready but I have not done this yet as I am going to move over to Mud X tires in a month or so.

Can anyone advise how I can pop the tire back in to place so my bike is back to full glory.

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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Deflate, and try again! When partially infalted, make sure is correctly seated.
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  • richg1979
    richg1979 Posts: 1,087
    does the wheel have a seating well for the bead? if so it will prob take 60-70psi to seat the bead in the well. my old wtb rims made reseating a tyre impossable without a trackpump and some soap. they gave off a loud crack when the tyre seated into the well.
  • DunbarKev
    DunbarKev Posts: 29
    richg1979, there is a seating well for the bead and no matter how hard I have tried over the last 4 hours I cannont get all off the bead on the tire in to the seating well. I am about to head back to my garage and try and get enough PSI in to my tire (Asda foot pump) to pop the seating back in to place.
  • DunbarKev
    DunbarKev Posts: 29
    Thanks for the tip richg, the tire is now seated correctly in the wheel rim. Not sure how much psi it took to get it in place but I have let a good bit of air back out off my tire as it was rock hard :-)
  • funkywigster
    funkywigster Posts: 71
    Hi Kev
    i had same probs with rhythms tried putting steel bead conti verticals on em but they wouldn't seat even lubed with washing up liquid and pumped to 90 psi :( anyway i tried tubeless so got some bonty rim strips replaced the blue rim strip with em but didn't bother going tubeless so tried verticals again and they popped in a treat even duel ply swampthings pop in no probs :lol:
    so try bonty rim strips there only 3 quid each the blue rim strip never looked centered think that was the problem
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