Originally Posted by
Bud Bent
My commuting bike uses 559 wheels. When I decided to convert it to disc brakes, I bought an inexpensive set of wheels that use Sun DS2-CX rims. Getting my 28 mm wide Conti Ultra Gatorskins on and off these wheels is so tough that I've been threatening to rebuild them with Velocity rims ever since.
Some rims and tires just don't seem to like each other. I think what happens is that even though a wheel is 559mm it's really 559 ± a certain tolerance,
if you get a rim that is at the large end of that tolerance and a tire at the small end of that tolerance, they can be a real son of a gun to get on and off. I saw the rim strip sticking out of one tire, so I need to pull it off, but those tires were hard going on, so I have been putting it off. Really windy out today, so I may tackle that one, instead of riding
