Fitting tyres
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Any voodoo tips for a person who can’t get a tyre to seat properly? Please don’t say fairy liquid...
I’ve sanded down the inside of the rim to rid it of rust, the tyre still isn’t opening up and seating properly. The inner edge is staying ‘tucked into’ the rim inner. Do I need to use grease?! Or is there a non detergent solution?
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@spookdog Does inflating the innertube not help?
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@spookdog just recently done both tyres on my husky and both had this issue and it seated normally after I inflated the tyre just keep inflating until you see it seat and leave it a while to settle then loose it down to your preferred PSI
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@declan
Cheers bud, I’ve only ever had this problem once before. That was a heavy duty alloy of a Suzuki. It took stupid psi to pop the bead into place.
I’m just wary of putting my crusty rim under that kinda pressure, don’t know why though, I’ve had push bike tyres that are 40-60 psi iirc... -
@spookdog trust me you won't damage the rim from over inflation
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Take the valve core out if you are going to inflate to silly psi so that you can let it back down again quickly
