Originally Posted by
TimothyH
Schwalbe Easy Fit helps.
-Tim-
I was fresh out of this stuff, and personal lube too (as luck would have it). So I tried smearing some Extra Virgin Olive Oil on the rim and the tire bead, and the tire slid right on. So it was more a matter of overcoming friction than anything else with this tire, as opposed to the bead being too small. I guess the rubber on a new tires has a tendency to not want to slide easily over aluminum rims. Learn something new every day, I guess.