Tyre changing and getting old.

[sickpup]

My tyre machine needs some work, the reverse air valve is stuck open so it just turns backwards and I needed to change a front tyre. Luckily the bead breaker still just about works so the tyre had to be changed by hand using tyre levers.

After the bead was broken it took all of 5-10 minutes to remove and fit the new tyre. I was taught to use levers 30 years back when I was working on Ducatis and the Senna's came with Magnesium wheels and the usual Ducati wheels were soft Aluminium, tyre machines would mark and deform the wheels.

It was a lot easier when I was 19 years old compared to now being 49, I can still do it, its mainly technique but its killed me for the night. I hate getting old.

[UncleFester]

IME it's less about the old and more about the times you don't use those particular muscles.
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2017 Z1000SX

[Polarbear]

[UncleFester]

I'm 51 and it doesn't bother me 68 might be a very different prospect.
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2017 Z1000SX

[to v or not to v]

so which one of you old slags is going to change my tyres when the job needs doing?
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[MCN]

MTFU.

It's from not going out onto the land tracking, killing, gutting and cooking your food over a wood fire.

To many processed meals.

On a serious note, aspirin helps.
And try to maintain mobility.
And get more sunshine for that elusive Vitamin D.
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[CaNsA]

[Globule]

I'm glad it's not just me.

Changed the rear tyre on the Blackbird in February, nice and cold/cold rubber, damn near killed me

At 64, getting old really sucks

[virus]

Im only 34 and every time I fit a tyre manually I remember why I pay the local garage a fiver to do it, fuck knows how worn out I'll be by the time I hit my 60s.
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owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[MCN]

I must have stumbled into the lady's Workshop.
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[panrider_uk]

Apart from more aches and pains its the fact that lifting heavy stuff is getting more difficult that bugs me.

I'm looking at buying a new bike and am actually considering a 3 wheeler (Niken) for the extra stability!
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[struan80]

Wish I was that young. Walking to the shops really tires me out. So I drive or take the bike.

[Nobby the Bastard]

I find the worst bit about getting old is how people get so racist.

Honestly, I stopped changing tyres 30 years ago. Its a fucking mugs game when there are people who have machines that will do it for a reasonable amount when I would spend an hour doing it and then spend another half a day useless for anything else.
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[stinkwheel]

It's my knees that struggle to cope with tyre changing these days. It's not good for them.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Dont get me started about my knees.

Oh, and my neck after spending a day stripping down the strumpet because an oil cooler pipe crapped itself. Turning my neck to an obtuse angle so I could see what was coming down the road before pulling out wwas depressingly painful.
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[tinkicker]

I hear you about getting old. 61 now. Tendonitis in both ankles and shoulders from body building, racing motoX bikes, playing squash, table tennis, cross country running in my youth.
Rhumatism from broken bones, dodgy leg from broken tib and fib, years ago.
Bad back and dodgy knees from my career.
And my strength is half what it used to be.. What was once easy is no longer.

I get home from work totally spent, only fit for laying on the sofa watching tv.

Not a day goes by without pain. God knows how I am going to carry on doing my job for another six years, yet the government decrees I have to.
It is not the lightest of jobs. I am not a libraran.

Tuesday..

Ah. TK, the customer has requested that when you removed, stripped and assessed that dodgy transaxle, to remove and replace the articulation bushes while you are at it....

OK boss. Another evening spent on the couch....

Swingarm bushes.. The 1" drive, 2500nm air wrench weighs in at 12kg and the bolts in the pic require a 32mm socket. Far too old for this shit. But there is no one else to do it. The younger generations do not want to know....
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Wading through the thick tapestry of life one day at a time.

[stinkwheel]

Although to an extent, I find that as I get older, I find most of the jobs I attacked with brute force when I was younger, I now approach with a lot more finesse and technique. What age does give you is experience.

It's like when you see one of the old fellers in their late 60's and early 70's riding trials bikes. It's something I'm new to and I land up blowing out of my arse after the first couple of sections but then I see someone 25 years my senior on something heavy and fighty like a 500 ridgid matchless wafting through the section like they were going out for their Sunday paper.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Robby]

[Howling Terror]

[Robby]

[Howling Terror]

You'd throw a hip out if I did.
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[BanditsHigh]

Will be 58 at the end of the month with a fecked heart ... even walking takes it out of me ... even got a Blue badge now

Hopefully I'll be rebuilding my original GSX1400 into a new frame next year ... first thing to do is fit the new tyres to the newly painted wheels

All the best ... Barry

[struan80]

[A100man]