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Originally Posted by hillyman
Well YouTube videos look even worse than putting on rims than Continental or Schwalbe touring tires. After years of that the Tannus/ wheel combo sounds like a good deal to me.
Continental tires install readily on tight rims without tools when you run two wraps of 1 mil Kapton tape totaling 0.005" versus .020" for Velox, start the second bead 180 degrees opposite of the valve stem, and correctly milk the slack around while keeping the bead in the rim depression.
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