Schwalbe Durano Plus

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[sas62]

Have you tried washing up liquid around the bead?

[RLE]

Found these and the Marathon Plus a nightmare. First time I tried I thought I’d bought the wrong size tyre as the wheel literally fit inside the tyre, with no sign of the bead being remotely close to the rim.

An hour later, practically broken thumbs. Certainly broken will power. Adopted the method in the video below and somehow managed to seat them. Ran them over the winter with no punctures, but removing to swap to summer tyres was an equal issue. Following winter........rinse and repeat to the point I didn’t fancy the risk of trying to repair a puncture in the freezing cold.

Guess certain wheelsets are less/ more problematic. The VAR and tyremate levers also helped over the conventional levers.

Good luck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XUFVrl0UT4

[1ians]

I run them year round. To put them on I grab the tyre in my hand, like making a fist and then rolling them over onto the rim. Breaks the skin on the palm of your hand rather than separating your nails.

[yellowjack]

I forget the brand/model involved for now, but I had real trouble getting a particular set of tyres to fit. They were CX tyres going onto a variety of rims. I tried every 700c rim I had, and these tyres didn't go on any of them. Yet other tyres I had went on easily.

My solution was to send them back to Planet X for a refund. I had to swallow the cost of postage myself, but I just wanted rid of them in the end.

So the only advice I can give is "give it up as a bad job, and buy something else instead. I ended up buying Bontrager CX tyres that slipped on like a dream, so it definitely wasn't my rims, nor was it my tyre fitting technique...


Edit:

I found the thread from earlier in the year... https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... ...and if you scroll through to the later posts there are some photos of just how far from fitting on the rims they were.

Edited by yellowjack on Sunday 25th November 19:16

[TwistingMyMelon]

I put a set of these on yesterday, took 5 minutes!

Trick is is that I left them hanging above a warm radiator for a day, then I got them on 5 minutes each with no levers

When they were cold it took me about 15 each side

[counterofbeans]

I couldn't get these on to a set of Pacenti rims but they went quite easily on to some mavics.

[GOATever]

I’ve just gone through the annual ‘trial by tyres that are tricky to fit’. Every winter I put D+ on one of my bikes, and they can be a bugger to get over some rims. The technique I find works best, is to start by standing on the tyres, then pulling them upwards, like a big resistance band, then repeat the trick all around the circumference. Then fit one side of the tyre to the rim, insert the ( partially inflated ) tube. Then stand with your legs wide apart, with the wheel / tyre slightly in front, and with one side of the rim in contact with the floor, and the other side raised off the floor ( if that makes sense ) then sink down moving your hands around opposite sides of the rim, and use your body weight to push the tyre over the rim. It looks a bit comical to the outside observer, but it works for me. The same technique works with Tannus tyres.