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@Maj
found some inner tubes in the cupboard, so tried putting both vittorias and schwalbes on these stans rims and both are impossibly tight - they won't go on
hold any of that "make sure the tyre bead is in the centre channel!!" or "little bit of elboy force and cable tie one end", "have you tried a bead jack!"
do not want to hear it
functionally i don't have the arm stregnth to get these tyres on, and practically speaking, if i were to puncture i do not have the arm stregnth to change the tyres let alone cycle the bike
it's stupid tubeless rims make tyres this tight, it's impossible, how is anyone who's not yacked supposed to fix their bike?
dumb as shit
they're tubeless compatible tyres on tubeless compatible rims, and yet, here i am spending upwards of an hour to not even get them on the wheel
i don't even give a fuck about tubeless, the technology i want is to be able to put a fucking tyre on without it requiring fucking sourcery or a joe rogan roid routine
why does it have to be so hard and so tedious, i hate this.
eternally validated with my last full bike build where i bought non tubeless heavy as fuck rims, heavy as fuck non tubeless tyres which just slipped on with no faff and specced a drop in headset
i googled and apparently it's just the stans rims, they're unforgiving apparently
dog shit americans strike again
bored of this build, will simply wait to attempt litterally anything on the bike again till i've forgotten all about this next month...year....decade