Pah! Yoof of today, mumble... I've been using 17" bicycle tyres since 1983 and not had any problem getting them on or off.
17's are something of a movable feast; I am given to understand that the quality control on both rims and tyres were a bit hit and miss in the Wolber days. Mike Burrows reported having one rim that was /so/ oversized he was obliged to cut a section out of it and weld it back together!
Not or believe it, the rims are not welded. There are apparently pins in there, but it's the tension of the spokes that holds it all together. A bloke called Brandt will tell you all about it if you can accept him treating you as an idiot who can't read or calculate. There _is_ a Moulton B.C. instruction sheet on fettling the rims to a smaller size tho'.
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The Bridgestones were usually harder work than the Wolber / Moulton jobs too.
My AM7 is now on Stelvios, no problem to fit, even by the side of the road rather than workshop. But I never had any problem with Wolber, Continental or Bridgestone either. AM Moultons get through a lot of tyres...
My AM7 is now on Stelvios, no problem to fit, even by the side of the road rather than workshop. But I never had any problem with Wolber, Continental or Bridgestone either. AM Moultons get through a lot of tyres...
I became a 369-free zone before the Stelvios were available. Do you use the pukka 369 tubes? I used to use 349 Michelins (being tight) and generally find that using undersized inner tubes tends to make it a bit harder to get the tyres on.
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I became a 369-free zone before the Stelvios were available. Do you use the pukka 369 tubes? I used to use 349 Michelins (being tight) and generally find that using undersized inner tubes tends to make it a bit harder to get the tyres on.
Pukka, but the latest ones have a name I don't recognise "IRC", and have so much mould flash that I think they're going to be a sod to patch.
