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An unseated tire can rupture unexpectedly and cause serious
injury or death. Be sure the tire is properly seated when
inflating the tube.
Follow these steps to fix a flat tire:
❶ Match tube size and tire size (see tire sidewall for size).
❷ Remove the wheel from the bicycle. Deflate the tire tube
completely.
❸ Squeeze the tire beads into the center of the rim.
❹ Opposite the valve, use a bicycle tire lever to pry the tire
bead up and out of the rim. Repeat around the wheel until
one bead is off the rim.
❺ Remove tube. Release second tire bead.
❻ Remove tire.
❼ Carefully inspect inside of the rim and tire for the cause of
the flat.
❽ Inflate the tube ¼ full and place inside tire.
REPAIRING A FLAT TIRE
❾ Insert the valve stem through valve stem hole in rim.
❿ Start at the valve stem and install the first bead onto the
rim. Repeat for the second bead.
⓫ Slowly inflate the tire tube, checking the tire is seated
properly and not pinched as the tire tube is inflated.
⓬ Inflate to recommended pressure (see tire sidewall).
WARNING!
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