Continental Tires
Posted on May 29, 2009
Alright, this is a VERY serious post.
I got a flat on my brand new tire and that got me thinking about things that happened to me this week.
I can almost say, with 100% accuracy that changing the tire on my wheel caused me some serious body damage. I wont get into details, but the bottom line is that I am spewing blood with the little Jannies…
I wrestled this fucking tire for maybe 90 minutes on monday and then another 30 minutes on tuesday. I must have ruptured something inside cause that SOB would not get on the rim…
Continental makes their tires 3 sizes to small…. I actually unpacked 3 of them to see if it was a defect, but no, ALL 3 did not fit the rim….
I love these things, but at this cost, i am not so sure…
What a pain in the balls… literally
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BTW, I am about to fix my other flat…. hopefully I dont rip anything again
maybe you’ve got the wrong size wheel (might explain some funny training numbers) I’ll trade you some of old ones for your new ones
I actually wondered about the tire size. I tried with several different tires and I thought all of them where a tad smaller… I don’t know, I really thought I had bought the wrong tires… I was short 1 inch.
Second flat was much easier though… I guess they just needed to stretch.
Same thing with the tubulars. Close to impossible to put them on the rim, at least with my arms (which is a whole different story – things like this would have been easy in the rowing days… real man arms that I had… not anymore).
I use Conti tires and don’t have any problems. I run them on Mavic Open Pro’s. Might be the rim/tire combination.
In the past what I have done with tight tires and rims is squirt a little water on the rim’s sidewall to get the tire to slide in. Seems to help out.