Avocado toast is plenty supple, but difficult to seat on a rim.
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I was gonna do this but got the roubaix ones instead
Well I guess I gave up on waiting for the GP5K 32 a little early. Got some pro one 30ās instead, which should make fendering easier anyway.
Did tarckās suppleness comparison to the roubaix 32s that they are replacing
Was hoping to just pull off the old tires and throw on the new ones and be done with it, but I couldnāt get these seated with my floor pump, which has worked for every other tire Iāve tried. I just couldnāt get air to push the bead out of the center channel and into the hook, even with the compressor at the shop down the street.
I think I might need to redo the tape and maybe add another layer?
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you need to leave them out on the floor
with a cat
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Iāve been open air cat aging a set of 32mm Gravelkings for the last 24 hours. They wonāt seat right, but Iām hoping that slightly tackier sealant mixed with some fairly robust fur deposits may do the trick
Did you inflate with a tube inside first? Out of the package is always a toss up because they are all curled up in there for a long time before you get them.
I havenāt yet. Iāll probably take another crack at it this weekend since Iām busy as fuck until then.
letās add some aging requirements to the official tarck suppleness test
it should be poo scale level number of days inflated with a tube before the test is valid
so for the marathon winters, two days
for the dugasts, seven days
Iām mostly just griping, but if you have a stupid fucking tire that wonāt seat and you hate it so much, is there any chance that the valve is a little gummed up and not allowing sufficient airflow?
The tire seems like itās basically sitting flush with the tape in the center channel. The air seal was good with the old tire, so I donāt think thereās anything structurally wrong with the wheel or tape.
Favorite ~25-28 tubulars? For almost exclusively road use.
^ i wanna know the sameā¦
Damn, looking at vittoria tubs now, some sweet sizes but shitā¦$125 !!!
you can prob buy FMBās for cheaperā¦
The valve should always be removed for seating a tire.
But then how ā¦ air?
Air still goes in through the stem with the valve removed. And a lot more of it at that.
Then put finger over valve stem, find core, quickly remove finger and spin in valve. Lose a few psi.
the valve core, as the locals say
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Yeah yeah Iām drawing the conclusion that I may have misspoken
Anything Veloflex: Raven/Vlaanderen at 27mm, Arenberg/ Roubaix at 25mm gets my vote, not FMB $$$ but up there with them in quality.
are there any places to get deals on tubs lately?
years ago, i would buy vittoria service course tubs in 25mm for like $60-68 usd from ribblecyclesā¦didnāt see much when i looked a while back. they would also had (for a while) some brown casing sprinters for like $35, oohhh the sweet fixie days and grabbing tubular rims from the bike co-op for free, i still carry one of those sprinters for a spare.
oh actually ribble has a corsa G+ in 25mm for kinda cheapish. much better than $120 from other places.
maybe they had them in 28mm but sold them allā¦
Donāt you have some free FMBs?