The fourth and final video in our series on gluing and mounting tubular tires with Mark Purdy of iFixByx in New York City. Here, Mark shows us an effective way to clean excess glue off the rim and tire.
Also, see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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Wow!! thanks for that series, I have read/seen many conflicting pieces of advice for gluing tubs, this has been far and away the most informative/instructive. Gonna get my tubs glued on my new rims, for the first time, and I will be off to the velodrome! (feeling a lot more confident). Thanks Mark!
Gary ,Manchester UK
thanks for posting this series… very helpful, and timely (I just got my first set of tubulars). I read lots of other how-to’s and watched your series here before attempting the glue job this weekend. Well, it all went off (or on, I should say) pretty nicely. Not too time-consuming, very little mess, altogether pretty easy. However, I did make a mistake –I was moving quickly from the final rim gluing to the tire install and put the tire on in the wrong rotational direction. I didn’t notice the error immediately, and moved on to the second wheel and repeated the mistake. Terrible to have gotten through everything smoothly only to find a silly mistake like that… And Mr. Purdy even noted that in the video!
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