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tonytoolbox wrote:ive used all types of tyre on afr,sip,and bgm tubless rims i heat up tyre with hot air gun use some tyre soap and ive never had an issue
hope this helps
bolzenanker wrote:Mitas MC20 are fairly easy now I have a technique, fairly soft wall means I can get them on with a bit of huffing and puffing. I still have to cut them off though.
Heidenau K80 SR, were too stiff for me, no chance they were going on just using tyre soap and levers.
ROClarke wrote: Slowly realising that AFR rims are an issue with some tyres. Not sure about FA Italia.
coaster wrote:M experience, Mitas Monson? 2 ply side walls, easy with levers and soap.
Scootsmart low load rating 2 ply side walls, not too difficult with levers and soap
Scootsmart high load rating 3 ply side walls, difficult with levers and soap but doable
Hidenaugh high load rating 3 ply side walls....fekin impossible following Sticky's method with shortened levers also long levers and a board with wedges to hold the wheel still , gave up when beed snapped with a bang I'd bought two and the other went on a split rim.
All tyres were warmed by standing on the radiator for an hour or so.
corrado wrote:ROClarke wrote: Slowly realising that AFR rims are an issue with some tyres. Not sure about FA Italia.
The centre well isn't as deep on the AF rims as it is on the Sip & FA Italia. As you're stood in front of a wheel & tyre on a fitting machine if the well is deeper the distance to the far rim edge is less hence the tyre is easier to flip over that far lip. That's why tyres are easier to fit on Sip and FA Italia than they are on AF. Trade off is that deeper well needs the centre of the wheel to be made thicker and that's why you need the longer studs on the Sip & FA but the AF rims still fit with the normal studs.
Had hundreds of tyres fitted on Sip rims and plenty fitted on the FA Italia but I gave up on the AF ones as they were much harder to get tyres on.
ROClarke wrote:Fitted Dunlop tyre today on a FA Italia rim.
Basically stood the tyre in front of my gas space heater and used a jig I have made up which is a rim onto which I bolt my rim which has metal finger which guides the tyre under the rim as I turn the tyre by hand.
coaster wrote:ROClarke wrote:Fitted Dunlop tyre today on a FA Italia rim.
Basically stood the tyre in front of my gas space heater and used a jig I have made up which is a rim onto which I bolt my rim which has metal finger which guides the tyre under the rim as I turn the tyre by hand.
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