The epic continues: I put in skinny 18-23mm tubes and was able to seat the beads on the tires. Inflated to 120psi and eft town for three days!
When I got home, Iswapped out the skinny tubes for proper sized 28-23mm tubes. No problem at all! One even went on w/out using a lever, using hand strength alone! No problem for road side repair either, as long as I'm patient at the time. About 10 miles on them, and yep, they feel like tires. No magic yet, but I'm still waiting. Hoping they're not as flat prone as half the internet seems to think they are! http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclotourist/9083953575/ Cheers, David On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, cyclotourist <cyclotour...@gmail.com>wrote: > Steve, that's the way I change all my tubes, so will stay with that > technique! After three days sitting on the rim uninflated, it was *almost > *hand-mountable. Not quite but close. I'm hoping that inflated for a few > days it'll be fine to install with minimal effort. These sure have a > specific installation procedure, that's for sure! They better make me a lot > faster :-) I'm sure I'll like them, but a bit wary still re. punctures. The > internets are split 50/50 whether they are more or the same resistant as > other high performance tires. Will report back on that! > > Don, I have Velocity A23 rims. They're a full 23mm wide (Coincidence? I > think not!). > > Joe, I had one of those at one time, bought from Rivendell circa 1995 or > so. Didn't like it, in fact it bent on me and was almost unusable. Operator > error I presume. As for current installation, my thumbs were plenty sore > for a day, but no blood lost! > > Cheers, > David > > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Ron Mc <bulldog...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> the clinchers, btw are a lot bigger than the tubulars. The Strada >> clincher is every bit as big as the Parigi tubular. >> >> >> On Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:16:36 PM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: >>> >>> I mounted a Strada clincher tonight, and it came out great. >>> I dry-mounted the tire without a tube, then came back with tire irons >>> and pulled off one side, inserted the tube and it worked great. >>> I think the Stradas may be really stretchy, though. I mounted a Parigi >>> and Strada tubulars on my Moser, and it was a Lot easier to mount the Strada >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
