Originally Posted by
rosefarts
I just wanted to acknowledge that sometimes, occasionally, hard to mount tires are not just user error.
How did you rule out user-error?
Does sealant in a tube really work? If so, I might try this on my similarly-disposed Vittoria Corsa G+ impossibletomount tire on a wheel I had to irreversibly skewer onto a horizontal dropout. If that thing flats, it is walk-o-shame time.