MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

i have 2 very tall people screaming about water seepage at me

looks like those hope water seals come in handy huh

proper northerners 1 - faffy yanks 0

don't get it wet...
/mogwai

I have one in E10, but you can also use a hoover pipe / other pipe.

Were you planning on riding this bike in the rain???

Does the usual pvc pipe bodge not work for a CK crown race? I recall buying a special adapter for seating a CC 110 race only to avoid mashing the fancy rubber seals on it.

Thanks a lot, they look like a perfect replacement for my Docs chelseas, which started looking like clown shoes fairly quickly.

reccomend trying them on if you can, they size a bit loose tts, this apparently is intended but you might prefer a closer fit.

if they're loose enough to size down will depend on your foot, half sizes are just wider

Ok I fixed the housemates Marin, sort of, I can now think about this again

I’m going to order the correct tool next month with the rest of the small parts I need and get it built, won’t have enough time to ride it between now and then so it all works out convenient

You may ask why I’m buying tools when this is the last bike I’ll buy (Tm)

But I think it would be nice to have as it seems people regularly approach me as “that woman in the queer group chat who can sort of fix a bike”, I can give them the tool bag and supervise with a half pint and lots of encouragement in hand.

always a good idea to own tools IMO

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

There is not many things bike more infuriating than tires that wont go where they are supposed to go.
Thanks for the warning, no Stans for me then.

is it any sort of balm to suggest that once the tyres have been on once they might be easier in the future for having been stretched? never mind, i heard you didn’t want to hear it and yet i said something, it came from a good place (although i am only guessing they’d be easier, who knows). bummer, feel your pain, multiple projects and broken things I’m in over my head about currently.

apparently the issue is stans rims being oversized and TLR tryes being undersized?

so i need new tyres or i need new rims

i NEEED a labotomy

Yeah it fucking sucks that if you want 'decent' tyres and rims then you have pretty much no option but to buy tubeless stuff and deal with this arse-ache.

If it's any consolation, having a bike where you have to deal with the tubeless shit does make it so much easier when you then go to work on a bike where everything is non-tubeless. You'll actually be glad of a flat tyre as an opportunity to work on non-tubeless stuff!

If they are early stans rims then they often worked tubelessly much better with non-tubeless tyres (i know?). Trying to get UST tyres on them was often impossible and, if you did manage, sometimes catastrophic (as the beads might snap).
How much, how thick and how well-applied your rim tape is can make a massive difference to tyre fitting sometimes. Don't despair.

Did anybody ever try one of these tyre lever pliers? The local fixie guys swear by it for tight tyres on narrow carbon rims.

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i've used these since 2019, they're fantistic, they get nearly all tyres on and make tyre changing far more accessible to those who lack the thumbs.

even this could not get either tyre on

I've had one, which was broken by trying to fit a 559 tyre on a 590 rim - before I realized there are two different 26" wheel sizes.

two different 26" wheel sizes.

wait, what?

The grrl needs some of these. I mean, it would help if she packed any tyre levers at all but cold weather and feeble fingers do not a fun tube repair make.

TBH I'd sell the wheels and get something different. It's one thing to be angry and annoyed by tight tyres and rims at home but have that outside? Fuck no.

sounds shit. it's cold and wet out anyway. not the time of year to be riding a bicycle.
or going outside at all for that matter.
best off to hibernate until the spring.

F. me I also learned about this this weekend upon picking up some rims for new bike build, come home, double checking erd, wait wut 25mm more?!, Google, defeat.