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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.