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Old 09-14-21, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Miele Man
I just put a pair of Servizio Corse tubular tire onto the rims. Unfortunately the rear tire isn't sitting quite right at the valve stem and thus there's a bit of a bump every revolution. What's t he easiest way to get the tire to sit on t he rim perfectly round. I haven't applied the tape yet because 1. I was wanting to stretch the tire prior to doing that and 2. I wanted to be sure the tire was perfectly round on the rim.

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i use the method posted on yellow jacket....really important to seat the valve them and then stretch hard going away, I got lazy once and got the bump and had to take off re glue and remount

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