Eric: The only supple tires I've tried were the Soma C-Lines. My Atlantis has Mavic A-719 rims, and both the Somas and various Schwalbes have mounted easily by hand. I think there's enough difference in rims that a tire that may be tight on one could be an easy install on another brand or style. Not a lot of experience with this but enough to have an opinion.
Maybe "supple" tires need to fit tighter for some reason? Why would that be? dougP On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 9:32:24 AM UTC-8, Eric Karnes wrote: > > Hi all- > > I have a question about the fit of supple tires and the way they fit on > rims. > > I've had only two experience with very supple tires. Pari-motos on > Velocity A-23s (650b) and most recently Compass Snoqualmie Passes on Sun > C-18s (700c). Both tires are so tight to the rim they're very difficult to > get off and damned near impossible to get back on. I recently changed a > tube on the Squoqualmie Pass / C-18 wheels and it took me over 30 minutes > to muscle the tire on the rim. Frankly, I don't want to ride the bike, > because if I got a flat after dark, I honestly don't know if I'd be able to > replace the tube/tire in the field. Now, I've changed many, many flats and > have never had this issue with 'regular' tires (usually on OpenPro rims). > It usually takes me under a minute to get a new tube and tire back on. > > So...is a normal experience for these super supple casing tires? Or is > this a 'correlation not causation' situation and I've just been unlucky in > my choice of the rims I paired them with? Any advice would be appreciated! > Thanks guys! > > Eric > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
