method for seating a tubeless tyre on a rim without compressor
fairly simple.
get the tyre mounted, splash a little petrol - which most of us carry - inside the tyre, enough to wet the inside of the bead for say 2/3 of the circumference, but not enough to pool. use your head...
make a little trail of petrol up across the outside of the tyre. this will be the wick.
take a piece of rolled paper, light the end and touch it to the petrol on the outside of the tyre.
burny, burny, whoof! your tyre is seated on the rim and probably about half-inflated.
taught to me by Ariel Rodriguez, mechanic in Mendoza, Argentina. for a demo, check:
YouTube - Seating a tubeless tyre on a rim without compressor.
cheers
andy
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