Originally Posted by
7/8timing
Mostly made this thread so people would know what to expect when buying a used wheelset.
as to them being made that way, were the tires built differently in the late 80's and early 90's? seems like that's when you run into this problem, with rims from that era.
Just wondering, that's all.
other than the rims I listed I have never had to use a tire lever.
it was the era of narrow tires, as narrow as 18mm. I imagine they were designed that way so these narrow tires could be run at the extremely high pressures that were en vogue at the time. We know now this was silly but we had to try it to figure it out.
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