How To: Installing 9:00-16 tires on CMP wheels

[rob love]

Back in the day, you applied feather dust to the tubes to stop them from folding over themselves and chafing. Nowadays, as there seems to be some distaste for naked chickens, thus feather dust is hard to find, just use talcum powder. Army foot powder will do just fine.

Otherwise I second pretty much everything Bob says and I'll stress his one point: get the proper tubes. Before I worked with this museum, they would send their tires downtown. Apparently the 90° valve on center tubes are hard to get, so they used regular valve off-center tubes and would drag the valve over to the center hole. I can assure you this works for between 2 days and two years. Get the right tubes.

Wallace Wade out of the US carries them and some heavily re-enforced flaps. I was able to track the tubes and flaps down to Doberman tire distribution in the US and brought up a couple dozen of each.