Finish at the valve when seating a tyre?

[Crackle]

I always start at the valve. Just push it up, tyre on, seat the valve, continue around. Makes the last bit easier if the tyre is tough to get on.

 

[lazybloke]

the tyre always goes on very easily if I do this.

Dropping the tyre bead into the 'gutter' of the rim is the secret.
Sadly not all gutters are equal!

 

[youngoldbloke]

Always valve last.

 

[Brandane]

I will go with the bearded guy. The fella on the GCN video looks about 12 years old, and he's using tyres that slip on like your favourite shoes.
Disappointing to note that no-one has yet posted hilariously that they don't know because they get their butler to do it. So my screen is coffee free; obviously .

 

[midlife]

Dropping the tyre bead into the 'gutter' of the rim is the secret.
Sadly not all gutters are equal!

All gutters are equal, but some are more equal than others....... thank you Mr Orwell

 

[mmmmartin]

they get their butler to do it

Sorry? Isn't this what everyone does? I mean, what's the point of having a butler if they don't do this?

 

[Smokin Joe]

I sit by the roadside crying till a passing cyclist takes pity on me.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Always do what the guy with the beard does.

No, he's overcomplicating it. If you do it right, you can install a Marathon Plus tyre fairly easily, and sometimes even without using any tyre levers.

As for the thread topic: I also start at the valve, and have never had any problems with that method.

 

[BillyS79]

Damn right.

Eh? Make your mind up....!

 

[Crackle]

There's only two things you are trying to avoid; trapping the inner tube or not seating the valve. So long as you don't do either, the technique doesn't matter or is there something I've missed?

 

[ianrauk]

Another start at the valve person here.
But it matters not if you know what you are doing.

 

[youngoldbloke]

The point is ...... if you start at the valve, the valve prevents the tyre beads at that point from being pushed right down into the well of the rim, thus making the fitting of the last few inches of the bead of a tight tyre a bit more difficult - try it

 

[screenman]

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That one is so wrong.

 

[Ajax Bay]

The OP asked about where to finish, not where to start.

the valve prevents the tyre beads at that point from being pushed right down into the well of the rim, thus making the fitting of the last few inches of the bead of a tight tyre a bit more difficult

I agree. It doesn't matter where one starts, it's where you finish that counts. You don't want to finish opposite the valve for the reason @youngoldbloke gives. And you don't want to finish by the valve - that's just making it difficult.

I start and finish 90 degrees from the valve - it avoids both problems...

Start at the valve (to get it straight) then work one way a quarter, and then work round finishing at 90 degrees to/from the valve. This allows the tyre beads opposite to be pushed right down into the well of the rim, thus making the fitting of the last few inches of the bead of a tight tyre easier.

 

[mickle]

Eh? Make your mind up....!

Have you seen my avatar?