Getting the tire to sit even on the rim - Help

[Toddk]

DON'T PUT SILICONE ON YOUR TIRES, break the whole thing down lube the whole thing, and hit it with a full flow which is very difficult with a tube, take out the valve core. Some air chucks will not work without a core, find one that will.

I take all sorts of liberties, they all require my tires to hook up.

Toddk

[c&c]

RuGlyde ... Ill add that to my list of products to get. Thanks

[c&c]

I've never figured out why the compulsion to squirt wildly inappropriate substances onto new motorcycle tires is so freakishly strong.

The answer is pretty simple. PPL use what they have on hand because it's the last thing on there minds. You get the tire, you go to mount it and then you realize you need lube.
The best would to have a sticky on changing tires. Maybe there is one I don't know.
Any lube that is non corrosive, dries out fast and does not leave residue is OK.

[cowboyup3371]

The best would to have a sticky on changing tires. Maybe there is one I don't know.
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Ask and you shall receive - Basscliff has this posted on his site and it even includes the reference to the RUGlyde:

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/storagecliff/images/tire_change_tut_by_catbed.pdf

[recycled64]

Everybody has their own way, more or less, to do this, JamesWhut comes the closest, IMO, to what is going on here. Since you're using a tube, if you look at a typical tube, the base of the stem has a reinforcement molded into the tube. What sometimes happens is that the reinforcement gets wedged in between the tire bead and the rim, pushing the bead of the tire at that spot away from the rim, creating the lack of proper alignment. What I used to do was to use the round (or hex, whatever) lock nut that should have come on the stem by unscrewing it to the point that, at the end of the valve stem, creates a 'pushing' surface. After you've spooned the tire on, before you put much or any air in the tire/tube, use the lube you choose at where the stem is located on the rim, inside the tire bead, both sides. Then push the stem/nut arrangement in as far as it will go. If it resists, you'll know that that was the problem, just continue pushing in on the nutted stem until it sort of 'releases'. That insures the tube and the stem reinforcement is fully and symmetrically inside the tire.
Hope that helps. (using the stem nut also keeps the stem from going all the way into the tire if it releases suddenly.)

[JamesWhut?]

You can do pretty much the same thing simply by "waggling" the tire back and forth (or left and right from the rim's perspective) to get the tube out from between the tire and rim and more or less centered inside them. A bicycle guy taught me that after I gnashed my teeth from ruining 2 tubes for a KLR in a row.

I still hate tubed tires. :P