Apart from making a deliberate puncture, does anyone have any bright ideas how to get the air out of my tyre so I can change to my knobblies.

I'm currently running Marathon Mondials and to be honest, I've been way too lazy to change them over to knobblies even though I would have enjoyed many outings better if I'd done so. But after my last ride, slithering and sliding on wet and muddy ground, I can't put this off any more. The problem is that I've got sludge filled inner tubes and the front tyre neither inflates or deflates as the valve appears to be blocked. On the upside, I haven't had a puncture since I put these thingies in.

Anyone?

P.S. I've made a deal with Dan. He's going to change them, while I make some pastry and use up some lovely cooking apples that I swapped for a basket of tomatoes and make a pie.

Can't help with the tyres but we need pictures of the pie

Unscrew the valve core
BUT have it at the top and leave it to stand for a while first so the sealant has run to the bottom away from the valve

Valve at top.

Blast air into the tyre.

Then go tubeless :-D

The valve thing only partly worked but Dan is strong and used that to put some oomph into levering the tyre off and I have knobblies again. We're having a heated debate in this house over the tube/tubeless issue. I may have been in the debating society back in the day, but Dan is winning. Or is he? Hmm, smell the apple pie.

voodoo_simon wrote:Can't help with the tyres but we need pictures of the pie

Here's the pie

Core off. Place valve at top of rotation. Gently wiggle a pin/slim screwdriver in the core. Sluge and slime tyres are a pain to use compared to the latex ones like stans.

Farawayvisions wrote:

voodoo_simon wrote:Can't help with the tyres but we need pictures of the pie

Here's the pie

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Looks good

Farawayvisions wrote:

voodoo_simon wrote:Can't help with the tyres but we need pictures of the pie

Here's the pie

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Needs some custard :)