Thread: Tight tires
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Old 04-27-2021, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by benb View Post
No one has mentioned it but if it's bad enough one solution I've done in the past is just to forget putting the tires on the wheel set I intended them for and to try them on another wheel set.

Generally most of the time my bike collection is not always going to be big enough to try that but anyone with a decent collection it's worth a shot, one of your other wheel sets is likely to be on the small side of the tolerances and the tight tires will work better there.
^ This. Cheaper rims tend to have looser tolerances based on my experience so I keep a cheap wheel around for prep mounting any Challenge-ing tires.
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