Re: [CR]Inability to mount clinchers

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Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:14:09 -0600 (CST)
From: <smwillis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Inability to mount clinchers
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, DoubleB <swiftybjb@rogers.com>


Take a trip down to see me at the shop or try a local shop and let them teach you some better ways to mount your tires. It may help more then you think.
>From: DoubleB <swiftybjb@rogers.com>
>Date: 2007/12/30 Sun PM 08:49:51 CST
>To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]Inability to mount clinchers
>Folks,
>
>I'm doing a bit of winter maintenance including putting new clinchers on
>my GIOS Torino. I must be the worst tire mounter in the world because I
>always seem to ruin at least 2 new tubes for every tire I mount, I
>always seem to pinch flat the tube between the tire bead and the rim
>when pushing the last bit of the tire over the rim. This is too costly
>on my meagre budget, so I am seriously thinking of switching to TUFO
>Tubular Clinchers. Has anyone had experience with these, are they easier
>to mount than clinchers and tubes? Is the ride comparable to clinchers?
>How well do they wear?
>
>Brian (pinch flat) Booth
>Toronto, Ontario, Canada
>
>_______________________________________________

Stevn Willis
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