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I patched a tube and am ready to remount the tire. It did not previously have a flap installed. Upon previous advice on this site, I purchased flaps. Do I completely remove the tire from the rim & then put the flap on? Should I trim it to fit the rim, or should it be tucked up into the tire? This is unfamiliar territory. (I bought talcum powder at the Dollar General. The girl I asked directions from was too young to even know what talcum powder was....)

The easiest way is to completely dismount the tire and then tuck the flap up into the tire with the tube installed. Make sure to pull the stem through the hole in the flap. An alternate is to only dismount only one bead then tuck the flap into the tire holding the tube in place and locating the stem in the hole in the flap.

Generally for dismountable rims once you have the rim compressed with a rim spreader it is relatively easy to totally dismount the tire. If you don’t have a rim spreader (compressor) then the process gets a bit more tricky and difficult.