New Tires
So after spending all day putting the engine in alex’s bug I thought I would use my new tire spoons, and freshly liberated jack to change the tires on Marlin. It started out great got the bike off the ground and got the rear wheel off . This was of course the easiest part of the the operation. Actually getting the first bead off the rim wasn’t to bad but the second was a bitch and a half. First I tried to take it off the same way as the first bead but quickly gave up on that and ended up with both beads on the outsides of the rim. This way the rim was floating inside the tire. According to google it was supposed to now be easy to pull the rim out. Wrong. So after I got the second bead back on I was eventually able to get the tire off, with no small amount of sweat.
Next came the new tire. I lubed up the bead and poped it on no problem. This, of course, was the beginning of the end. When I grabbed the inner tube and tried to put some air in it I found a tare. Being that it’s 8 at night I will have to wait until tomorrow to get a tube.