Originally Posted by masi61

BTW, on an evening club ride this fall I flatted on my wheel with the Challenge Criterium SC tire. When I removed my wheel in front of a farmhouse and began to try to dismount the tire, I struggled with the 2 tire levers that were in my Scicon seat bag. Another rider who said he was very experienced practically grabbed my wheel from me before I even gave him permission to do so. He started fussing with the 2 tire levers and made absolutely zero progress at removing the tire. I then insisted that he hand it back so that I could proceed to methodically removing the tight bead, removing the punctured latex tube, doing a full tire sweep for embedded glass or bits of wire, then mounting the spare butyl innertube and finally re-mounting the rim bead and verifying that there were no pinches. I was perfectly capable of completing this work, and quicker than my eager friend.