DIY tire changing sites?

Hi everyone,

Gotten to the point where tire-changing seems a good thing to know and
practice. I have a little more free time, am riding more and therefore using
up rubber more often than ever. Therefore...

I think I need to spoon my own tires in my own garage.

Any superior sites for DIY equipment and tips/tricks on tube tires is
appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

-David

 

D o n ' t F u c k i n g B o t h e r

 

sweller vaguely muttered something like ...

wot e sed ...

Just tried to remove an old Michelin (maybe 15 years old) from my Beamish
and replace it with a new IRC Trials tyre .. I gave up and went to a local
tyre depot when I resorted to the angle grinder to try to cut the beads ...

They wouldn't charge me, so I later dropped off a 6 pack of Becks for their
trouble .. they took 3/4 of an hour ...

 

Tubed tyres - not much of a problem. It's tubless tyres that are a reet
bugger to get on and off rims with only hand tools available.

It would help us a lot if you said what the bike was - I mean, a 125cc
dit bike, fine, but some hulking great custom thingie that has tubed
tyres because it has old-fashioned spoked rims[1]: well, that's a
different kettle of fish.

[1] Yes, I know many spoked wheels nowadays use tubeless tyres, but
there are exceptions. The old Triumph 900 Thunderbird, for example.

 

Couple of mates with too many years fitting kwicker than any one
moved into their own franchise. Now run a van fitted with generator,
compressor, air line and bead breaker.
Didn't get much change from several grand! Then they had to buy a van

They come to the wheel and change the tyre for you. The only thing they
don't do is remove wheels from
bikes, too many complications in their insewer ants.

I changed the tyre on a virago 535 once. Never again.
Changed the tyre on a 125 dirt bike hybrid rat. Never again.

For a fiver I have a choice of garages/mobile units to change a tyre for me.
Just not economic.

Dave

 

Get as many tyres as you can changed ASAP by the blokes in the van,
then, because it sure sounds like they're giving you a great deal!

I bought my own t_i_re changing machinei[1] (all of $69) and made a
balancer ($15) because the local shop wants $30 to change a tire if I
don't buy it from them. That's the loose wheel price, ride in would
be more.

Mail order tires are so much cheaper than paying the shop's markup that
it made good sense for me, I'll be money ahead after 3 changes.

If I could get tires changed for $10 I'd never have gone for it, it's
too much fussing about, but at $30 a pop it makes sense for me.

[1] Had to drill into the concrete floor of the garage to set anchors
for it, though.

 

I've found if after removing the wheel the bike is raised slightly so
that one leg of the main stand is off the ground then the tyre is put
under the stand and the bike lowered back down the bead pops easily.

Having said that for the hassle I'd rather leave it to a tyre depot

<snip>


--
Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://www.arrivedeprived.org.uk/

K100RS SE
F650
(not forgetting the SK90PY)

 

'73 Norton C'do 750

 

http://www.clarity.net/~adam/tire-changing.html

http://www.mcnamee.tzo.net/motorcycle/

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, David

Ah, is it well screwed together?

'Cos if it is, you'll be needing Z rated tyres.
--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

*Snort*

 

Skinny tyres, skinny rims, tubes. No problems.

(*Actually* that's what I thought when I was changing a rear tyre on a
400 Four I bought last year - I had the devil of a job, and it was only
when I paused for breath, mid-way through breaking the bead, that I
noticed it had been fitted with a tubeless tyre (obviously with a tube
in it).

 

You need:
- a bead breaker for tubeless tyres
- a pair of tyre levers
- a tub of tyre 'soap' for making the bead on the new tyre slippy
- a wheel balancer

You can get all except the tyre soap from here :
http://www.abbastands.co.uk/products.htm

 

Skinny tyres, skinny rims, tubes. No problems.

(*Actually* that's what I thought when I was changing a rear tyre on a
400 Four I bought last year - I had the devil of a job, and it was only
when I paused for breath, mid-way through breaking the bead, that I
noticed it had been fitted with a tubeless tyre (obviously with a tube
in it).[/QUOTE]

You thick twat. Surely it wasn't the first time you'd noticed this
trend, was it?

 

You thick twat. Surely it wasn't the first time you'd noticed this
trend, was it?[/QUOTE]

Er, yes, actually.....

 

Er, yes, actually.....[/QUOTE]

So the tyres you've been running on your various SOBs over the last
few years have been what, exactly?

 

So the tyres you've been running on your various SOBs over the last
few years have been what, exactly?[/QUOTE]

Small things - tyres for the Benly and suchlike are still tube type. And
for the bigger bikes, I've bought some at Kempton Park, where they still
sell new tube-type tyres from time to time.

 

*Governments* change more frequerntly than you change your shirt.....

 

Hmm, I had to change the tube in the TS50's front wheel.

3 punctures later it seemed okay

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's current bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Heavily fortified)
M'boys NEW bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

This is why I don't do tyre changing. I can, but it's such a pita. That
and expensive alloy rims; tubeless tyres and tyre levers just do not mix.