I am in the process of replacing my inner tube on my Transporter bike. However I cannot get the bead around the valve to sit nicely in the rim of the bike. I think this is because of the inner tube being wider/ thicker near the valve?
How do I get it in nicely and is this an issue or not. The bead the the blue line it might be a bit difficult to see on the picture.
by Jupiter730
8 Comments
Pump your tube a bit should pop in
Edit: oh damn, I learned something new today! (Dont tighten the ring before inflating)
Loosen the nut on the valve a little bit until the valve can move a bit, then inflate.
Loosen the ring on the valve stem, this is pulling your inner tube towards the rim. This way the bead doesn’t have enough room to fit properly.
Once it sits properly, inflate to the correct pressure, and only then tighten that ring.
1. deflate the tire
2. spray windex liberally around both sides of the rim and get it into the bead
3. inflate to max pressure
4. leave the room for ten minutes while the tire starts to reseat. it could be slowly or it could snap into place giving you heart attack
5. come back and deflate the tire to your regular pressure.
You have the tube pinched between the tire bead and rim. To fix:
* Loosen the ring on the valve about a centimeter.
* Push the valve into the rim. You’ll feel it pop into place.
* Redo the valve ring.
* Inflate.
never tighten the ring. it’s there to keep the stem from pushing in when you are using a pump to inflate the tube/tire. tightening it could rip the stem out or split the tube at the stem.
You pulled a rookie mistake you tightened down the ring on the valve before you pumped up the tire which caused the tube to be wedged in between the tire and the rim. You need to deflate the tire and push the valve in to the tire. Hopefully that should pull the tube from under/between rim and tire and allow tire to seat properly once you reinflated
That’s the worst one I’ve ever had inflate it halfway and then ride it around for a second it’ll seat itself