Fitting tires

[kramdra]

I want to fit some tires myself to save £30 each time, as Ive got to buy 3 soon. Ive done tube tires before and removed a couple of tubeless.

Are modern tubeless tires difficult to do with the correct tools? (levers and rim protectors)

Thanks

[mentalboy]

You'll need to build a contraption to break the bead otherwise you'll be doing a lot of sweating and grunting without getting anywhere! (There are examples on the net and I seem to recall seeing a thread on here about a wooden one but you'll have to look for it!).

I've got a tyre machine though.
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[Tamsin]

bead breakers readily available on fleabay

[CaNsA]

[clancy]

£30 to fit a tyre, where the hell are you going lol?

Local bmw dealership will change a tyre for £10 on a loose wheel
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[Llama-Farmer]

£30 sounds high. If the wheels are already off the bike I'd expect £10-20 a pair.

Often if you bring in some beers or biscuits they'll do it for free.


Plenty of bead breaking machines on ebay. Should be able to get one of them (and a wheel balancer if you don't already have one) for less than £100 including shipping

[kramdra]

Bead braking and balancing are the easy bits in my limited experience. Im more concerned about stretching the new bead over the rim without a machine - I read some are a very tight fit but part-worns might be easier?

[krarkol]

Jump on the fucker
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[Speedfreak13]

Yep £10 around here too (midlands) just a tip get the tyres warm before fitting or removing it's easier! Even just leaving them in the sun for a hour or so!!

[yen_powell]

[davebike]

£10 on loose wheels is what I charge unless it got tyre sealer in the old tyre or the new is deformed from bad storage

Tyre sealer is £20 extra is it horrible to clean off me to tool and workshop

You need a good compressor and tyre soap to seat some tyres
Hot water can help with ones that will not go on the bead

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[nowhere.elysium]

G clamps to break the bead on the old tyres, ratchet straps to stretch the new tyres over the rim. It's really not difficult.
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[DrDonnyBrago]

My tyre changing kit cost me about £20 for some levers, rim protectors, rim weights and some skateboard bearings.

Made a bead breaker using a few length of timber (it's poverty style, but works), wheel balancing is done using some axle stands with a few bearings attached to some angle iron, use the axle as the balancer shaft.

Tyre on and off isn't that difficult, I found Pirelli (angel st) was harder to change than Michelin (PR2/PR3/some uber sporty thing) as there seems to be a lot more give in the bead/sidewall on Michelins.

[doggone]

It's worth having a go but as they are saying the hardest bit is breaking the bead initially, otherwise it's much the same as tubed tyres - but you sometimes have a big problem getting the rim to seal again when you start to inflate it.
Some tyre soap is good, WD40 or similar will do.
You need something that can blast air in quick ideally.
Another trick is to put a ratchet strao around the circumference to force it in close contact.

I often try to break the bead by putting the tyre in a vice - it's got harder over the years as tyres have lower and lower profiles!
I've even popped them off by driving a landrover (very gently) onto the tyre almost touching the rim.
Some sort of long bit of wood or metal levering device is going to be your best option - where you can apply a lot of force to a small area of the tyre wall.
As soon as one bit pops off you are there.

If there was a bike tyre place nearby I'd let them do it I think.
The nearest is about a ten mile drive from me.

[sickpup]

[BTTD]

[Fizzer Thou]

As well as bead breakers and balancers it is important to have a decent pair of tyre levers to hand.Since buying a pair of Michelin style items it has made changing tyres on my enduro and sport bikes so much easier

https://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv23/WiNot_Rhencullen/Workshop/0014614_michelin-type-tyre-levers-15-inch_300_zps0485af63.jpeg
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[dydey90]

[yen_powell]

[lihp]

After changing my own tyres last time, I am going to happily pay £15 per wheel for fitting from now on.

[c-m]

[-Matt-]

Not sure about doing it yourself but 30 quid is high unless you're talking about ride-in-ride-out.

I've paid 10-15 quid per loose wheel fitted and balanced in Bristol for the last few years.

[c-m]

Curious if anyone has tried Motion Pro BeadPro?

https://www.adventure-spec.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/400x400/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/0/8/08-0519.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjBHLPONZGs

Looks decent.

[BTTD]

[i.p.phrealy]

did see one youtube video once about breaking the bead.
the one quote that stuck in my head?
"You take your shovel..."


this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPaCV_uCi78
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