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Ugh, ridiculously tight fitting tyres, how does one deal with them? I've never had a tight tyre situation before, but put my Vittoria Open Pave onto my new wheels with H+Son TB14's last night and while the front one went on OK, the rear was a complete bugger to get on.
I eventually managed to get it on using my hands after slightly damaging several tyre levers, but I now have no idea how I'm going to get the rear tyre off again. It's too tight to get a tyre lever in there, on either side, and I now have no confidence in doing any proper riding on it as I don't think I'll be able to get the tyre off in the event of a puncture.
Help?!