#cycling or #triathlon or #ironman people - Anyone have recommendations for tires that absolutely refuse to be large enough to fit on wheels?

They're for my SO's TT bike that she's doing her first Ironman on soon. Tires are Pirelli P Zero TLR RS which I understand are known to be difficult to fit but I've never seen anything like this. I've watched dozens of youtube videos, read every article I can find, etc. Even tried zipties all over the tire after seeing that in a video last night. Wheels are 700c and so are tires. I just put new GravelKings on my bike this week so I'm not a complete idiot in this regard.

I've tried making sure the seated portions are in the center of the wheel, pulling up on the rubber, ending at the valve, starting at the valve, an endless amount of tire levers, and a ton of swearing at them. Nothing. The wire bead is just not giving me any flexibility.

Long shot but anyone have any suggestions? If not, I'm running out and buying some replacements tomorrow and then sending these Pirelli's back. Absolute nightmare. Biggest concern is if she does get a flat that isn't handled by sealant, there's zero chance she's getting these tires off to put in a tube unless we're both doing something wrong or missing some key technique.

Also, for anyone who's racing, local shop seems to have Continental GP 5000 All Season TRs in stock. Any reason not to replace these Pirelli's with those? RollingResistance website seems to show them as pretty comparable.

This might be common knowledge but it was new for me. If you find yourself trying to delete a file in Windows and the filename ends with a period (no extension), you can delete it via cmd with:

Explorer won't let you delete it and a regular del in a command prompt won't let you delete it but add the \\?\ in front and you're set.

Question for those you in IR or dealing with scammers accessing computers.

A friend's mom ended up on a chat and then phone call with a "tech support" scammer yesterday after thinking she was on the phone with HP's support, trying to get her all-in-one scanner to send fax's. They had her download AnyDesk, they showed her a scary looking screen of services that weren't running, and wanted her to pay them to fix it. That's when red flags went off and she hung up and disconnected the screen share. I work in tech but on the legal side dealing with attorneys and their productions and doc reviews and don't have a ton of IR or InfoSec or related experience. I've used FTK and similar over a decade ago when flirting with moving from ediscovery to forensics but it's been so long I wouldn't know where to start nor what I'd be looking for anyways (and it's probably overkill?).

When you all run into this or if you were in my shoes, what would you typically do to make sure nothing was done by the scammer while on the screen share? I went over and enabled airplane mode while I looked at it but didn't see any processes running that jumped out at me as unusual. No new or unusual applications installed that I saw. Windows 11 with Webroot running as primary AV. She's using Chrome to manage passwords, I'm putting together directions for her on migrating to BitWarden instead. She's already changed critical account passwords and did that on her chromebook instead.

Any suggestions from those of you who do this regularly on what I could look for when I go over there again? I'm leaning towards them looking for a quick and easy "pay me for support" situation where nothing malicious was done in addition but I don't really know where to start in confirming that.

Thanks in advance for any guidance or suggestions anyone has!