http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Seating stubborn tyres - Recent Topics en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:13:12 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21492#post-374077 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 23:28:35 +0000 jss 374077@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I just spent another whole day of my life struggling to get a tyre to seat properly and evenly on the rim using all the usual tricks- fairy liquid, cable ties around the bulging portion , grabbing and pulling the tyre with the special Park tool , inflating it to dangerously high pressures , and the usual incantation of expletives- all to no avail ! I was about to surrender and take it to the Bike Works, when it occurred to me that inflating the tyre to a very low pressure ( around 15 psi) , putting it back on the bike and riding around for a few minutes ,might seat it and it did !<br /> Perhaps this trick is well known - I certainly didn’t know it- but I thought it might be useful to someone in a similar predicament who was similarly ignorant of it </p>