08-27-2010, 10:32 AM | #16 | ||
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I bought the Tusk bead buddy and tire spoon that Spud recommended. It was a fraction of the cost of Motion Pro stuff. Changing tires used to tempt me to say bad words; now I think happy thoughts. The tube I installed in TurboT's front wheel was hilarious! It's a Michelin super extra heavy duty tube that is 4mm thick. 8O The joke around the bike shop is that you don't even need to run tires with tubes that thick.
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08-27-2010, 12:08 PM | #17 |
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Wow, that video was great! Gave me one of those moments similiar to such events as:
The moment you realize there is a differece between boys and girls. Peppers come in different flavors. Never mouth off to mom is you are in range of dad. Daddy 8) |
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08-27-2010, 07:26 PM | #18 |
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also lube the bead with some soap makes it much easier
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08-27-2010, 07:32 PM | #19 |
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Didn't you say that you did a bunch of tweaking to the spokes to get it from 1.5 inches out to 0.5 inches out though? So, if it was indeed that your tire was not seated properly on the bead and the rim was fine, wont it be out now? Would it be possible for you to "retweak" the spokes to get it back to original?
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08-27-2010, 08:57 PM | #20 |
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yes i spun the rim without the tire. bad bad. so i spent another hour tweaking back to round, but now the rim is nice. but the tire i guess will never seat properly, i marked it,, it is off in the same spot no matter where i position it on the rim.. what causes tires to do this? just old?
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08-27-2010, 09:26 PM | #21 | |
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08-27-2010, 10:20 PM | #22 |
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you can also put a srap around the whole tread of the tire, and start cranking it down to help seat it..
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09-01-2010, 11:40 PM | #23 |
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i just got this.
the tire had 1700 miles on it anyway.. hope this seats up nicely. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...#ht_1858wt_686 |
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09-05-2010, 11:59 PM | #25 |
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ok new kenda tire and tube. still its not seating correctly, its not the rim cus whe n i rotate the tire the non seating follows the tire. it seats everywhere but 20 inches of the tire is in maybe 2mm but at 40mph its bouncing the front end, the rim is almost perfect, , should i get the rim balanced with weights?
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09-06-2010, 12:36 AM | #26 | |
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