Tubed tire replacement

Ottocle · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Karma :

My wheels are spoked so I have bought new tyres, tubs and rim strip.
How much should my garage charge for their labour?

Teflon-Mike · tl;dr Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Karma :

Ottocle · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 30 Jul 2013 Karma :

You make it sound so easy! Would like to self service. Will look into it. Thanks.

Rogerborg · nimbA Joined: 26 Oct 2010 Karma :

Jesus is my personal lord and rim protector.
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sidewinder · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Aug 2011 Karma :

Get some lube like washing up liquid on the tyre to.helps ease it on Thumbs Up

smegballs · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Karma :

After fucking about with horrible cheap tyre levers, that literally had sharp edges. I just manned up and bought a pair of lovely well made ones for a tenner each these ones actually have a smooth finish and radiussed edges to avoid ripping shit. Funnily enough my last tyre change was painless with no cut inner tube.

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Teflon-Mike · tl;dr Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Karma :

Is worth the mention; get 'good' tyre levers for a bike; weedy push-bike ones often bend and buckle trying to get a push-bike tyre off!

AND... apologies... looking at e-bay, you might struggle to get a set for a tenner.... maybe £15ish, but still not talking daft amounts of money, and as said, worth having; sods law says when you need a puncture fixed shops'll all be shut!
Been a while since I bought a tyre lever... but last one I did, was like this:-
https://i.ebayimg.com/t/New-Extra-Long-370MM-Tyre-Tire-Lever-Curved-Motorcycle-Motorbike-Enduro-KTM-sxf-/00/s/MzAxWDUwMA==/$T2eC16ZHJHwE9n8ii1i(BQIn(4HJpg~~60_12.JPG
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Extra-Long-370MM-Tyre-Tire-Lever-Curved-Motorcycle-Motorbike-Enduro-KTM-sxf-/191148032543?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item2c814f821f
Which is a tenner on its own, from there, and you would need two.
It has rather small 'pry' ends that are nice and easy to wiggle under the bead, while its long so you get lots of leverage, and the bowed end gives you a couple of extra chances to work around disc brakes or sprockets and stuff. Mine sees a lot of use... rarely for taking tyres on and off though! Wonderful for wiggling stubborn stuff into or out of place, like exhausts or engines and 'stuff'.

These are the rim protectors:
https://i.ebayimg.com/t/3-ALLOY-WHEEL-RIM-EDGE-PROTECTORS-MOTORBIKE-MOTORCYCLE-/00/s/NDc2WDQ3OQ==/z/n-MAAOxyvuVSHhM5/$(KGrHqJ,!lgFH5tvneM6BSHhM438uQ~~60_12.JPG
This set of three is a fiver on e-bay. Not essential, but of you are spooning tyres onto an alloy rim, they do stop the tyre levers denting the soft metal.
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