Mousses are dark art that way.... As they wear and lose nitrogen, they get softer. Racers will have different mousses for different conditions. I saw a video were a WEC rider is doing a tire change, after the first day. His mechanic hands him a new tire and mousse. The rider looks at it and pulls the new mousse out and grabs his old tire and removes that mousse, installing it in the new tire. He obviously is liking the feel of the mousse he rode on today and doesn't want to break a new one in racing tomorrow.
Thats mounting and stuffing..... But i've been considering using Mouses but I had some bad experiences with them in the 90s.... I like Tubliss and never really had a problem with them either....
just got called out to do an assist, R&R tire and reuse mousse from first tire. Dunlop 739 remove M18 mousse reuse in MX71. remind never to mousse up an MX71 ever again....super hard compound super hard bead super hard sidewall....I got it within reasonable time, but it was a ass kicker even with all my proper tool and zipty grease bucket..... wheel and tire are Honda CRF and will be heading to Baja 500 (I was told)
So much easier to change tyres pressure with a pump & gauge. Pretty sure I'll be staying with aired tyres and dealing with the odd flat here and there.
Even it was a tube install job it would have been an ffffer...the MX71 tire bead alone was super tough even with using the bead buddy to hold it into the channel.
One issue here that's a royal PIA. My front tire I am having an issue where the last 4 inches wont seat fully. 9/10ths but not completely. Just wants to suck itself down a tad. Rode today 54 miles in the dirt and felt fine. Though maybe it would seat but didn't so pulled the wheel and working carefully pulling sidewalls up to no avail with an iron. Get it seated and then the opposite side slips down. Wheel and tire rides well. Plenty of soap to lube it if it will move but like most tires I normally overpressure to seat the bead. 12-13lbs isn't much to seat the tire. Any thoughts?
You can try a blow gun with a rubber tip and blow a lot of air in the hole, where the valve stem should be. I've seen this work, to seat beads on tires with a mousse.
Got it solved. Flipped tire on the stand and using the bead breaker pressed down on the tire, opposite side from the side that was not seated
odd mine always finish seating after a test loop ride if not fully set before, Italian world trophy team guy told they never worried about a full bead seat and always just rode off with them, upon later inspection they would be fully seated.
