Originally Posted by rm -rf

These are key points for me. I posted a thread on BF showing my tight fitting tire mounting method. There's photos and a description there. I don't know how well this would work with wire beads, since they are less flexible.

I had sore fingers and mangled levers with my new rims. The key for me was lifting just an inch of bead at a time, then sliding the lever over and repeating. It's actually quite easy and doesn't need a strong lever now. I do think that levers shaped to let the bead slide down to the rim work better.




That really works great for most wheels. But my Kinlin rims have an extremely shallow well. With no tube and just one bead mounted and down in the center, I can't slide the tire around the rim to center the label with the valve hole. That's tight!.