Bill, I think your step #8 may be the brilliant answer I need. Like you allude to, I've been scratching me bald pate that I can get the bloomin' tire's first side on with me bare hands so I ought to be able to with the second bead well into the blood groove of the rim. I'll give it a go and let you know! Grin.
With abandon, Patrick On Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 9:48:48 AM UTC-7, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Deacon > > Here's my recommendation for how to convince yourself of a couple things > > 1. Tire is completely off the rim. > 2. Set the tube aside > 3. Get one bead of the tire onto the rim with your hands only. Were you > able to do that? If so, then you've proven that with nothing in your way > you can mount that bead with your hands > 4. If you believe the tire is symmetric, then move to step 6. If you > don't have faith in that fact then take the tire back off and repeat step 3 > with the other bead > 5. Now you know you can get either bead onto the rim with only your hands > provided nothing is your way. Get back to one bead on the rim > 6. Slide in the slightly inflated tube. Start at the valve stem and get > as far around as you can with your hands. Let's say you get to 80% > complete before is starts getting tight. You have about 8" of bead that is > not on the rim. > 7, For the part of the bead that IS on the rim, work all the way around > pushing this bead into the very middle of the well, which will be pushing > the already mounted bead slightly up and out of the well. > 8. When you get back to that 8" section that is not on, pull an 8" section > to the left back out. Now work the tire on from the right. > 9. For me the last bit I will pull up and over with my 8 fingers. The > wheel is upright, planted on the ground. I'm above it and my 8 fingers are > grabbing the bead and rolling it OVER the rim. > > I mount all tubeless tires with no tire levers, including brand new ones > that are much tighter than ones that I've mounted several times. I believe > there are rim-tire combinations that are unusually tight. Unusually tight > ones may require a second or third run at steps 7 and 8. The uncovering > step in step 8 is important in my opinion because you are sliding the > "finishing section" over to a place where the tube is already where it > needs to be out of your way. > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > > On Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 6:59:20 AM UTC-8, Deacon Patrick wrote: >> >> I put the new tubeless (thus too tight) tire into the blood groove >> (bottom of the rim well), and that makes it possible, but invariably with a >> brand new, not yet stretched tire, using the tire iron to leverage that >> last bit over the rim runs a 50/50 chance of slicing the tube (I leave it >> partially inflated to help it get out the way, but sometimes it seems to >> wiggle back). Any tips for not destroying tubes at this juncture? >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> www.MindYourHeadCoop.org >> www.CatholicHalos.org >> www.DeaconPatrick.org >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0a1262cf-9104-4b78-a3e2-fa0e5419d24f%40googlegroups.com.
