I have not yet tried the supple life with Compass tire offerings but do have a set of 700c Sun CR18s (Harris Cyclery stock freewheel wheel set) and did find the fit to be much tighter with some Ruffy Tuffys vs a set of Mavic CXP 22 when moving the same tires between wheels on my and my wife’s road bikes.
I now have a set of Challenge Chicane clinchers on the same CR18s and they mounted more easily. I also had a LOT of difficulty with several tires on a different Sun rim on a 26” disc wheel... DS2-XC rim I think... one tire I stripped and partially exposed the wire bead during the process it was so tight! Interestingly, an old WTB velociraptor mounted no problemo on the same rim. Like Bill mentioned, I think there is something to be said regarding technique and I’d like to think I have improved my tire mounting technique in recent years but I have also found certain tire rim combos that just seem to be more trouble than it’s worth. I could only assume this is the result of variances in both the tire and rim manufacturing tolerances. I’m still running tubes exclusively and after enough frustrating roadside/trailside tube changes, once I find a combo that works and is not to difficult to remove and replace I tend to stick with it in order to disrupt my limited saddle time as little as possible. Brian Cole Lawrenceville NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
