Finish at the valve when seating a tyre?

[steveindenmark]

Something not mentioned yet.

When you put the tyre on the rim. Make sure all the details about inflating pressures are next to the valve. Then you dont have to go hunting for them. Especially in the dark.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Something not mentioned yet.

Having put enough air in the tube for it to hold it's shape as you fit it into the tyre with one bead positioned on the rim, it helps to gradually release some of that pressure (but not all!) as you fit the second bead.

 

[mickle]

Something not mentioned yet.

Talcing the inside of the tyre makes a happy home for the tube.

 

[steveindenmark]

The biggest problem here is not finding them but reading them. The maker's name is often clear, but to read the required pressures I sometimes need to shine a torch obliquely across the tyre to see indistinct relief numbers.

I agree. I cant even read them in the daylight sometimes. At least it gives me some chance if I know where it always is.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Something not mentioned yet.

When you put the tyre on the rim. Make sure all the details about inflating pressures are next to the valve. Then you dont have to go hunting for them. Especially in the dark.

I can actually remember the pressure needed in my tyres - amazing but true! The problem is reaching that pressure with a mini pump after a flat on the road - I'm satisfied if I can acheive a 'get you home' pressure. If it's a new tyre, check it out before you fit it, but who inflates to the manufacturers max/min anyway? I'm always going to be using around 90 - 100 psi front, 100 - 110 on the back, 23/25 mm tyres. I always line up the tyre logo with the valve however, to help identifying the whereabouts of a hole in the inner tube.

 

[slowmotion]

A bit off-topic, but I've found it helps if you have rim tape that isn't black. You can see a trapped tube a lot more easily when the light isn't good.

 

[mmmmartin]

Talcing the inside of the tyre makes a happy home for the tube.

Or talcing all your tubes before sticking back in the box makes for a happy home for them.

 

[iandg]

I've always finished at the valve. It was what I was taught when I started to work in a bike shop in 1974.

 

[zigzag]

i finish near the valve (as it is obviously easier and never requires levers which may pinch the inner tube), also before the final bit i run my thumb around that side of the tyre to ensure the bead sits in the deepest part of the "well".

 

[Ajax Bay]

i finish near the valve (as it is obviously easier

Why?

 

[youngoldbloke]

Why?

- see post #30

 

[zigzag]

Why?

because the valve occupies the space where the bead would otherwise go, i.e. the smallest internal circumference of the rim. i prefer doing things the easy way, although have no problem if someone fixes flat tyre their way - as long as it goes smooth and i don't have to wait in cold ha ha