Fitting inner tubes
Another dumb question that everyone else knows the answer to:
I've just fitted a new inner tube on my '82 alloy-wheeled airhead and I just can't remember where the two nuts go on the valve stem. I've changed 20-30 tyres & tubes by now but find myself completely flummoxed, dammit-I don't remember wondering about it before, even. So I've asked at one garage, two tyre depots and two bikers that change their own tyres, and only one tyre depot fitter agreed with me that both should go on the valve stem on the outside (i.e. on the hub side of the rim,) with the dished washer going between the tube and the rim. It seems to me that whatever the function of the nut nearest the tube, it can still perform that job when placed on the hub side of the rim, and also be locked by the other nut tightened down next to it. On the other hand, if I left one of the nuts on the tube side of the rim it would prevent the tube from seating into the well of the rim.
So, you see, I'm confused. Hope I haven't got you folks confused too.
Cheers,
John.
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