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Valve cutaway

I’ve never fitted beaded edge tyres before, but am having a go for my BSA Round Tank, which has 24x2¼in covers. Following a friend’s advice, I was planning to cut a ‘V’ in both beads for the valve to poke through, but then I read on the internet this is bad practice, so I’ve tried fitting without cutting the Vs. I’m now having difficulty getting the inner tube valve to poke through the beads and into its hole in the rim. How can I do this?

Clive Hopkins, email.

Like all offered on the internet, the tyre fitting advice you read needs weighing up. Unless beads are skimpy, I can’t see how the instruction not to cut Vs in the beads for the inner tube valve will work, as the inner side