[CR]RE:SEWUP installation

(Example: Production Builders:Pogliaghi)

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:02:23 -0800
From: "Bob Freitas" <freitas1@pacbell.net>
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]RE:SEWUP installation

TED ,THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN.
               I install all tires in the fashion you describe,placing the rim on the floor and applying pressure down .Where my technique differs is when I get to the bottom I end up holding the tire/wheel against my stomach(works better these days after losing 4" of waist)then rotating the wheel up closer to my eyes so I can keep a close eye on the tire as to not drag it thru the glue(at this point there should be enough slack in your prestretched tire that it will just flop over)
              All this discussion of sewups has given me the urge to try some of those wheels I have been saving while using clinchers all this time.
             I have a set of wheels that my DAD built me in the 60s that have not seen the road in a long time,time to give them a try.
                                                                    BOB FREITAS
                                just down the road from MEMORY LANE here in MILL VALLEY,CA