Originally Posted by
guadzilla
FWIW, I struggled to mount both Veloflex Masters and S-Works Turbo tires (neither of which is tubeless) on the LB AR36 rims. In fact, ripped the skin off left thumb while trying to mount the former and destroyed a tube trying to mount the latter.
Never had this issue with tires before (Turbo Cottons mounted like butter on CLX64s and no problems installing latex tubes on them).
What width were the tires? Pretty universally it looks like 25s are good amount harder to install than 28s.