tyre fitting

[grandmasterbo...]

how easy would it be to fit your own tyres as i dont want to pay the £60 honda want to fit them so is it easy to get the old tyre off the rim and the new 1 on ?
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[salty21]

At first it can be a bit of a ball ache, but once you do a few you soon get quicker at it. get some rim protectors and tyre levers off ebay and away you go. You can also buy some wheel weights and either make your own balancer or buy one for about £50 quid but i tend not to bother balancing, it's over rated IMO and i've never had a problem by not doing it, it also saves you taking a chunk of paint off when it comes to removing them
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[doggone]

The increasingly wide low profile rear tyres are getting difficult for me to do but haven't been beat yet.
Breaking the bead is the hardest partt when you have only a couple of inches of sidewall to work on.

Agree about forgetting the balancing, unless you knock the already fitted weights off it's unlikely to need doing anyway.

[swiftb]

I just whip the wheels off myself in the garage then take the wheels down to tyre place who will generally charge between £10-£20 for a pair of tyres replaced including balancing.
Quick, cheap and easy.

[G]

£5 each at the local place I used to take them to for fitting to loose wheels.
I do trail ones myself; tried to break the bead on a 190 section tyre on the zx9 and entirely failed (including using a bike side stand to the point on of the wheels was off the ground!)

[Gazdaman]

Trail tyres are easy enough, tubeless are a bit of a pain, especially wide ones. And you really need a compressor to pop it onto the bead.

Tyre levers are cheap, and you can even buy a bead breaker for not a lot of money. But in the meantime, a bit of bodgery can break the bead, like G said, using a bike stand, or a spade.

Gaz

[Des]

[Des]

[Blue_SV650S]

You don't need a compressor, a double barrel pump and a inner valve core remover is all you need!

A spade will break the bead, some soapy water, two good leavers and some slitted garden hose (as rim protectors) - and some brute force/technique is all you need!

Technique is a large part of ease to get off/on the rim and to inflate.
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[Des]

[G]

[mad4it028]

i uesd to use a spade and do it like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXEMGn1F8_Y
now i made up one like this although mines made of steel much safer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztYmUgGBObk&feature=related
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[Gazdaman]

Something of this sort of design is pretty cheap, and I suspect effective.

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kart-Tyre-Bead-Breaker-Removal-Tool-Go-Kart-/140444089965?pt=UK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Other_Vehicle_Parts_Accessories_ET&hash=item20b31ebe6d#ht_961wt_905

Gaz

[Des]