Tightest. Tire. Ever.
10-05-11, 08:35 PM
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Please pardon my ignorance, and this isn't intended to criticize anyone or promote an agenda, I'm just curious.
With all the good choices available, what about these tires and rims makes them worth putting up with the difficulty mounting or removing them? I see there are ways to make it easier like the hair drier, but don't you folks ever get flats on the road?
With all the good choices available, what about these tires and rims makes them worth putting up with the difficulty mounting or removing them? I see there are ways to make it easier like the hair drier, but don't you folks ever get flats on the road?
get that Schwalbe or Vredestein on the rim and be able to pump the
sucker up to 160#....it's almost like looking down from Olympus on
the rest of the hoi polloi.
And as someone else mentioned, after they've been pumped to
pressure and ridden for a while, they seem to be a little more
manageable.
Also, i carry a bead jack in my messenger bag now.
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Not preaching, as I said I'm old tech and it's way too late for this tiger to change his gray stripes.
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Serfas Barrista 26" on a narrow MTB rim, broke an unbreakable tire lever on that one, dreaded having to ever have to fix a flat on it, but after a year or two on the rim it came off reasonably easily. Trust me, when I went to take it off I was ready for war and had multiple implements of destruction handy to detach the offending beast, but nope came right off and spoiled all my intended fun.
