What Have You Fettled Today?

[Webbo2]

I’ve never used any tools to put a tyre on the rim even a Marathon Plus on a Brompton. The technique is to roll and push to make sure the tyre is in well of the rim. In the end it just pops on. As a last resort I may use a bit of soap to help it seat.

Do you carry soap when you are out on a ride.🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[Gunk]

Do you carry soap when you are out on a ride.🤷🏼‍♂️

Only use soap to seat the tyre, especially on a Brompton. Everything I can get on the rim without any tools. I volunteered as a bike mechanic for a couple of years and a very experienced mechanic showed me the technique.

 

[sevenfourate]

I’ve never used any tools to put a tyre on the rim even a Marathon Plus on a Brompton. The technique is to roll and push to make sure the tyre is in well of the rim. In the end it just pops on. As a last resort I may use a bit of soap to help it seat.

PANARACER tyres: being Japanese - are supposed to come up dead on size with no leeway. When fitted new; my shop took 35 minutes for the rear. The owners Son (Young - but probably changed more tyres than me you and everyone else in this thread combined) said it was about if not the worst combo he’d ever come across.

And I suspect I’m only able to get on now - as it’s stretched / settled / been used for a few months etc. I’m sure there’s worse - but this is supposedly up there amongst the very best.

I broke both sides of the tyre off the bead, and worked into the centre of the rim as best I could. I had a few goes and was really going nowhere - the last part of the tyre on the last side being nowhere near going on. Then voila - I could see it was closer: so one final roll / push with my now raw thumbs and on she went.

**Are you saying you literally roll the wheel around to force the tyre up into the smallest radius of the rim - to then buy yourself space to hand fit the tyre ?

**Id love to see a video / link to someone on YouTube etc doing similar to help me fully understand your method……

 

[DCLane]

Bear with me with this one ... there is some bike-related content ... just!

Last week the new kettle I'd bought developed a crack around the silver plastic rim, exposing the wiring. A refund was quickly issued by the online river-named retailer. But ... it was less than two months old. Surely it could be repaired rather than just thrown away?

So ... I used the heat-proof flexible sealant which had some left after working on the driveshafts of the Chrysler Ypsilon and made a flexible additional section in the crack, using several layers to mimic the ridged silver band. Then some white Humbrol paint as a base layer and finally the gilding paint I'd used on the Peugeot PY10-LS Professional frameset repair as a top layer. Looks almost genuine and I've got a free kettle as a result.

 

[Gunk]

PANARACER tyres: being Japanese - are supposed to come up dead on size with no leeway. When fitted new; my shop took 35 minutes for the rear. The owners Son (Young - but probably changed more tyres than me you and everyone else in this thread combined) said it was about if not the worst combo he’d ever come across.

And I suspect I’m only able to get on now - as it’s stretched / settled / been used for a few months etc. I’m sure there’s worse - but this is supposedly up there amongst the very best.

I broke both sides of the tyre off the bead, and worked into the centre of the rim as best I could. I had a few goes and was really going nowhere - the last part of the tyre on the last side being nowhere near going on. Then voila - I could see it was closer: so one final roll / push with my now raw thumbs and on she went.

**Are you saying you literally roll the wheel around to force the tyre up into the smallest radius of the rim - to then buy yourself space to hand fit the tyre ?

**Id love to see a video / link to someone on YouTube etc doing similar to help me fully understand your method……

View: https://youtu.be/MB-hGDNDY6Y?si=omi9hIPbcNlARfQy

 

[KuroSan]

Did the final layer of basecoat on the Boardman, will put that to one side now for a couple of weeks before giving it a light wetsand in preparation for airbrushing.
Hoping my 160-180mm adapter for my front brake arrives tomorrow so I can get the new rotor on and bedded in before Critical Mass on Friday!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Only use soap to seat the tyre, especially on a Brompton. Everything I can get on the rim without any tools. I volunteered as a bike mechanic for a couple of years and a very experienced mechanic showed me the technique.

So, when you get a puncture, you are able to get the tyre bead off one side, get the tube out, fit a new tube, then reseat the tyre bead without using any tools? The point @Webbo2 was trying to make I think?

 

[ColinJ]

I broke both sides of the tyre off the bead, and worked into the centre of the rim as best I could. I had a few goes and was really going nowhere - the last part of the tyre on the last side being nowhere near going on. Then voila - I could see it was closer: so one final roll / push with my now raw thumbs and on she went.

I have a trick which I use in such cases when desperate...

I just tried fitting a new tyre which was so tight that it was ripping my hands up with me trying to use my normal no-tools technique. It looked like I would have to use some serious tyre-levering, with the associated risk of puncturing the tube and then having to immediately remove the b*st*rd tyre!

I remembered my above suggestion of standing on the tyre and thought I would give it a go again with this awkward tyre/rim combo.... To my amazement, the new tyre went on in about 5 seconds! It was so easy that I don't think that I could possibly have damaged the tube, but we will see. I pumped the tyre up hard and will check it in the morning to see how it is then...

Basically, use the sole of the shoe to grip the edge of the tyre and push the top of the whole wheel over to the side to act as its own giant tyre lever!