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Whale Oil Beef Hooked (say it with an Irish accent)
I don't know how this happened.. but today when I changed the tube on the back wheel, the Gatorskin came off with only a single nudge from the tyre levers. And.. I got most of it back on without levers, and actually got the last of the bead on by hand!!! 
Could it be that I have beaten the Gatorskin into submission? That the mere threat of acquiring super-powered tyre-fitting tools was enough to cow it into behaving? I'm not going to question it. I'm merely accepting it!
The not-so-good news is that I could not find a definitive cause for the puncture. I found the hole in the tube, but it appears to be on the inside edge of the tube, suggesting there was some foreign body/protrusion on the inside of the rim of the wheel. That's not cool. In any case, I dug a shitload of glass out of the Gatorskin, so here's hoping that's the end of the flat tyres for a while.
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I can really recommend the Easyhand bike tool, which I bought for exactly the tyre fitting job on stubborn Contis that you describe. Try fitting new GP4000 tyres! They come from some guy here in Melbourne, and get to you in a day or 2. When i bought them they were $10 posted for a single tool but now they are a couple of dollars cheaper. I bought 20 for $5 each, but have been too lazy to sell them on ebay for a little more - hey work so well that I prefer to get the occasional happiness from my riding associates as I gradually give them away. 
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