Save Me From the Spoon

kingrollo

What a morning !

I reluctantly commute as my wife needs the car. I am on my MTB (you can guess whats coming???) - I get a puncture - I struggle to get the tyre off , but at last I beat it, and off it comes, but try as I might, I can not get tyre back on - its now raining, and my hands are getting colder.

I phone my wife, she collects me and drives to me work - but she needs the car - I reckon I will be able to get the tyre on once I warm up - but I can't ....eventaully one of the guys in the office reckons he can do it with a 'spoon' - and my god he does !!!!!! - He is the hero - and I nick spoon !

But I don't want to be at the road side, trying to put a tyre on with a spoon ! - I would look foolish....

So whats the trick, how do I put a kenda komdo tyre onto a an MTB....Without a spoon !

will3

Forks are better for getting them off as you can hook the prongs round a spoke......

kingrollo

will3 wrote:

Forks are better for getting them off as you can hook the prongs round a spoke......

I had tyre levers - and getting the tyre back on was the problem !

rjsterry

Stupid question, but I take it you've already tried tyre levers? Watch you don't ding your rim using something metal as a lever.

Kiblams

I had those on my MTB a long time ago, didn't have any issues personally.

The key to fitting tight tyres in my exprience is to ensure that you have pushed the lip/bead of the tyre as far towards the centre of the rim as you squeeze it on. The rim tends to be a smaller diameter towards where it meets the spokes so try to get the lip/bead of the tyre in that.

I hope that makes sense :? , since I figured this out I am now able to put a MTB tyre on using just my thumbs, only need the levers to get them off.

cee

some tyres are tighter to fit than others....

wire bead tyres in particular can be very tight....

I carry a set of steel cored plastic covered tyre irons for the job....but find i do not always have to use them to remove/refit the tyre.

these are the ones i have....

http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwPNLq ... =-1&f_bct=

but as i say, i can usually roll the tyre on without them.

kingrollo

cee wrote:

some tyres are tighter to fit than others....

wire bead tyres in particular can be very tight....

I carry a set of steel cored plastic covered tyre irons for the job....but find i do not always have to use them to remove/refit the tyre.

these are the ones i have....

http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwPNLq ... =-1&f_bct=

but as i say, i can usually roll the tyre on without them.

I think the problem is the deeper section rims - they aren't mega deep - and are what came with the bike - but it means you have to lift the tyre that bit further

rolf_f

Kiblams wrote:

I hope that makes sense :? , since I figured this out I am now able to put a MTB tyre on using just my thumbs, only need the levers to get them off.

You need levers to get the tyre off? Ya big jessie

biondino

I had a similar problem. I had a pot of yoghurt, and wanted to eat it by the roadside, but of course I had no specifically designed implement to facilitate my desire. So I used a tyre lever, and it worked fine!

Problem is, I'd like to eat a yoghurt at my desk, or perhaps at the dining table at home, and I'd feel silly using a tyre lever! Do any readers have suggestions for an alternative?

will3

biondino wrote:

I had a similar problem. I had a pot of yoghurt, and wanted to eat it by the roadside, but of course I had no specifically designed implement to facilitate my desire. So I used a tyre lever, and it worked fine!

Problem is, I'd like to eat a yoghurt at my desk, or perhaps at the dining table at home, and I'd feel silly using a tyre lever! Do any readers have suggestions for an alternative?

Use your mini pump

Norky

will3 wrote:

Use your mini pump

+1

Set it up correctly and you can squirt the yoghurt into your open mouth. Or at colleagues. You might get some funny looks though.

Clever Pun

Rollo.. now your friend managed it with a spoon... did you? if you didn't doesn't it make it all a bit mute?

saying that I think I've got the mother of all tyre levers at home (if I've not already sold it)
It's a but like this
http://cgi.ebay.com.sg/Deluxe-Handled-Type-Tire-Lever-12/180465998114

on the plus side you can also eat yogurt with it without looking like a gimp

davis

Norky wrote:

will3 wrote:

Use your mini pump

Set it up correctly and you can squirt the yoghurt into your open mouth. Or at colleagues. You might get some funny looks though.

"Hey, what's that on your chin?"

"Umm... this?... Yeah, it's yoghurt."

"Right"

tailwindhome

Clever Pun wrote:

Rollo.. now your friend managed it with a spoon... did you? if you didn't doesn't it make it all a bit mute?

or even moot?

N0bodyOfTheGoat

I expected this thread to be about an uncomfortable saddle!

AidanR

The trick to putting on tyres is to make sure that as you work your way around the tyre putting the bead into the rim hook, you push the tyre parallel to the rim circumference so that when you get to the last part it goes on easily.

And apparently to use a spoon