Crumbs, it's my thumbs....
gtvlusso
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The gods rose up and pi$$ed on my day yesterday.
I get up early, get my bike out - front tyre flat. There is a big piece of glass sticking out of the tyre. So, I work from home in the morning and await my wife returning from her early morning swimming with junior. Drive up to the LBS, treat myself to 2 new gatorskins, then notice that the car has a flat tyre and a screw sticking out. As the tyre still has some pressure, I charge up to the nearest Kwikfit and get the puncture repaired before the tyre goes completely flat and I have to change it.
Head home after a the rest of the day at the office looking forward to changing my tyres on my roadbike in the comfort of my own home. After 3 hours, allot of swearing, 2 broken tyre levers and blistered and cut thumbs and hands....I gave up. I even managed to break a rim trying to get the tyre on.....
In ~20 years of changing tyres, I have never failed at this task.....but this one beat me.
Campagnolo Ypsilon Oxide Strada rims are notoriously hard to change tyres on, I am binning the rims and rebuilding with Mavic Open Sport.
Quote from another source:
solveg
02-09-08, 09:59 PM
Campagnola Ypsilon Oxide Strada rims just sucked 3 weeks of my life away. They were made oversized because apparently they were uncertain they could keep tires on them. I broke 6 tire levers, got blisters on both my thumbs and hurt my neck trying to put tires on them.
I despise those rims.
So, All in all; £50 Gatorskins, £24.50 Car tyre repair and now I will need my wheels rebuilding.....f*ck.
I get up early, get my bike out - front tyre flat. There is a big piece of glass sticking out of the tyre. So, I work from home in the morning and await my wife returning from her early morning swimming with junior. Drive up to the LBS, treat myself to 2 new gatorskins, then notice that the car has a flat tyre and a screw sticking out. As the tyre still has some pressure, I charge up to the nearest Kwikfit and get the puncture repaired before the tyre goes completely flat and I have to change it.
Head home after a the rest of the day at the office looking forward to changing my tyres on my roadbike in the comfort of my own home. After 3 hours, allot of swearing, 2 broken tyre levers and blistered and cut thumbs and hands....I gave up. I even managed to break a rim trying to get the tyre on.....
In ~20 years of changing tyres, I have never failed at this task.....but this one beat me.
Campagnolo Ypsilon Oxide Strada rims are notoriously hard to change tyres on, I am binning the rims and rebuilding with Mavic Open Sport.
Quote from another source:
solveg
02-09-08, 09:59 PM
Campagnola Ypsilon Oxide Strada rims just sucked 3 weeks of my life away. They were made oversized because apparently they were uncertain they could keep tires on them. I broke 6 tire levers, got blisters on both my thumbs and hurt my neck trying to put tires on them.
I despise those rims.
So, All in all; £50 Gatorskins, £24.50 Car tyre repair and now I will need my wheels rebuilding.....f*ck.
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Angle grinder comes to mind
Orange 5 Pro 650b 2014
Orange Crush 650b 20140 -
Gatorskins are quite difficult to put on when fresh, so this will also have been a contributing factor."If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
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never had a problem with gators, not compared to fitting marathons which usually ends up in bleeding thumbs. A bit of washing up liquid on the bead sometimes help get the buggers over0
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jomoj wrote:never had a problem with gators, not compared to fitting marathons which usually ends up in bleeding thumbs. A bit of washing up liquid on the bead sometimes help get the buggers over
It was the rims, deep bead and high flange.....gatorskins usually take a bit of effort....but not 3 hours!0 -
You have my sympathies. I too have had to struggle with rubber not big enough for the intended task
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walkingbootweather wrote:You have my sympathies. I too have had to struggle with rubber not big enough for the intended task
Boom Tsh!
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