rrheisler wrote:
Well, I managed to get the front on, and it actually looks OK. I swapped to a latex tube, which actually helped for some reason or another. It still took about 15 minutes, I did snap a tire lever, and I've got a blister the size of a nickel on a thumb, but I got there.
With this wheel it REALLY wants to grab the outer channel and stay there and not budge. The amount of effort to even get it unseated back into the center channel was ridiculous. I don't look forward to re-attempting the rear to get it seated correctly.
Key is to push the bead away from the rim towards the center but you need to do that on both sides of the wheel (drive and non-drive). Both need to be unseated in order to create enough slack. The unseating is easy, with your thumbs push the tire off the rim towards the center and go around in little steps until one side is done; then repeat on the other side. Then the tire will sit loose and you can pull one side over the rim to insert a tube. You can easily insert a tube but again when doing so push the tire back towards the center of the rim so the bead won't seat. When you're trying to mount the tire, start by pushing as much slack as you can towards the end point (opposite end of where you're start mounting the tire) and repeat this a few times as you go around it. You should have just enough slack to mount the tire at the end without needing tire levers.