Oh, are you running tubes in your Craggars?

If you are, how do you get them out?

Mine has the the valve stems that are threaded and have a nut on them (not particularly clean in the pic, kind of hard to see) I expect you remove the nut, but there is a metal plate inside the tube, and I can't seem to get the bead of the tire past it, and with the tire on, I can't seem to get the valve stem to come out of the wheel.

I ask as I am interested in changing the tires and tubes as I expect they are both over 20 years old, maybe I'm a wuss, but I don't like using rubber that old when replacements are so readily available.


My, what a steep learning curve. Erik II#5155