After much swearing and maybe a little loss of humour yesterday while trying to get a ghetto'd tyre to inflate with a track pump, I think I may have hit upon an easy way to inflate ghetto'd tyres.
Now, I am not sure I have heard of someone doing it this way before, or if I have I didn't understand what they said, so I thought I would share this and maybe make peoples lives a little easier...
After fitting the split innertube on the wheel, giving it a quick clean with soapy water and fitting the tyre, I then ran a piece of flat nylon tape around the outside of the tyre, on the centre line all around the circumference... pulling it as tight as you can, and tying it in place. This puts pressure onto the centre of the tyre, which in turn forces the bead out towards the sidewall of the rim.
Once I had done this it just pumped up first time without any fuss whatsoever... which was nice! Just remember to remove the nylon tape before the tyre is pumped up too much!
So, after taking about an hour and a half to fail to get one tyre inflated, I then managed to complete two wheels in about 20 mins once I had come up with this...
