On May 30, 9:48 pm, Tim McNamara wrote:
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bicycle_disciple wrote:
Hi all,

I tried this for probably 20 minutes with all the strength I can
muster. Basically trying to pull on a Deda Tre RS corsa folding
clincher 700 x 23c onto my HED Jet road rims. Folding tires are nice
but new ones are difficult to mount. I have never had so much
difficulty in the past with any tire than this one.

When it came in the box, it was nice and pancake flat and I wondered
how it'll ever attain the round shape. What I tried doing so far is
to get the tire on the rim without the tube and leaving it on there
for sometime to "stretch out". But the tube is going to be hard as
hell because I don't see any space for it to get in there anyway.
Whats the "pro" technique here, bleeding hands and skill or any less
gory way out?

Some combinations of rims and tires don't work well. Rims are sometimes
a tiny bit oversized, tires are sometimes a tiny bit undersized. This
might be one of those combinations.

Wow, thats upsetting. Clearly someone hasn't met their tolerances. I'm
not going to blame the wheel manufacturer HED since I've installed
many folding tires in the past with no problems. This is my first
Deda, and they've already run unpopular with me. It says its a high
TPI open tubular so I guess that means they're hand made as well which
explains the dimensional discrepancies.

B.D