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I'm just about ready to throw my bike out of the window and have a nervous breakdown.
WHY are my rims not accepting any tyres. My fingers are red and almost bloodied, im extremely sweaty. There are scratches in my shiny new braking surfaces due to using metal tyre levers after breaking plastic ones.
700c rims with a 13mm inner diameter should take 700 x 23 tyres right?!! Surely, what am I not seeing? I've bought Vittoria Rubinos and now Michelin Spedium 2s and neither is going anywhere near the rim.
I've tried every technique and tip online.
I'm starting to think I have a manufacturing fault on my Rigida DP18s. But then again, I have two rims from completely different batches (bought from separate places) and theyre just the same.
What the hell do I do?? ARGH