View Single Post
Old 12-25-21, 05:23 PM
  #67  
JohnDThompson 
Old fart
 
JohnDThompson's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Appleton WI
Posts: 24,790

Bikes: Several, mostly not name brands.

Mentioned: 153 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3590 Post(s)
Liked 3,401 Times in 1,935 Posts
Originally Posted by TiHabanero
1986 at a race in Battle Creek, MI I witnessed first hand what a poor glue job will result in. A customer of mine wanted me to glue his new tires on new rims the day before the race. I told him no in that I use a method that requires aging the glue on the tire for 24 hours and then applying glue to the rim, setting the tire to the rim and letting that age for 24 hours before using.
He went to the shop a mile away and they glued him up in a jiffy. At the race he was next to me going into turn 3 and then he was gone. Come to find out the tire had "rolled" off the rim. No myth here, the glue was applied as one drop between the spoke holes and nothing on the tire itself. Hammering into the corners was too much for it to handle and the tire simply peeled off the rim (ie, rolled).
Yeah. If you need to ride aggressively right after mounting a new tire, use tape instead of glue.
JohnDThompson is offline  
Likes For JohnDThompson: