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Which gen Iron Cross? I've never installed one of those that didn't leave me hating being alive. G-one speed on those were a horror show.
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Which gen Iron Cross? I've never installed one of those that didn't leave me hating being alive.
I was a pretty early adopter of IC, so probably gen 1. I have some Grails which I could try, but I don't really want to dismount the Schwalbe Ones that are on them.
I've put a fair few tyres on ICs and never had a problem, but they have been a mix of regular CX tyres converted to tubeless and schwalbe tubeless specific stuff, not vittoria.
Howard
I have a pair of Tubeless specific Vittoria cyclocross tyres.
They are incredibly difficult to get on the rims * - so difficult in fact, that I can't get them on if there is tape and a valve stem on the rim.
I have mounted many, many tyres and tubulars, but these leave me completely baffled. I've checked the obvious things - they are for 700 rims, and I've got the bead in the centre channel when trying to get them on. I've used water as a lube to try to help. No avail.
I removed the tape and the stem just to see if it was physically possible to persuade them on. It was. Just. With much cursing and swearing and tyre leavering. My hands are ruined this morning. Even if I could magic tape and a stem in there, I can't ever see them mounting with the bead that tight.
So before I burn them with fire, what does the hive mind suggest for making them more pliant?
* Stans Iron Cross