If your tires are narrow enough (less than 38mm or so) the Kool Stop tire jack is great to lever that last section of bead on. I carry it with me on bikes with difficult tire/rim combos.
Eric On Thursday, December 28, 2023, Curtis McKenzie <cmcy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Looking for some Cliffhanger wisdom. It seems that I am having a good > amount of trouble mounting Schwalbe Marathons on my Cliffhangers. So much > so that I worry about a tire change in the field, such as the Oregon > Outback, and been stranded. I am now carrying a large screwdriver to get > the leverage needed to mount the last bit of tire on the rim. Have not > pinched more that two tubes in the last fifty years of flat fixing. > Yesterday, I pinched two and scratched the heck out of the rim. Not to > mention bending the cool aluminum CyclePro tire levers that I have had > since high school. > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Curtis > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CABD4ymXXzmA-%2BQuU57Be%3DBk6POr4zzY3grN5% > 3DRSYqe2zyq9y3g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CABD4ymXXzmA-%2BQuU57Be%3DBk6POr4zzY3grN5%3DRSYqe2zyq9y3g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAHFNW5C41hcCvY-v%2B%3Dmm7OLeesMxgW2EnM4x164CJk_BR%2BkZww%40mail.gmail.com.
