Who fits thier own tyres?

I no a few guys on here do, so what equipment are you using?

Tyre fitting prices are getting stupid round my way (£10-12/wheel - i used to pay £10 front & back which i didnt mind for loose wheels) and as i only pay £80 a pair for hardley used Pirelli SC scrubs i may aswell buy equipment and fit them myself aswell!

Been looking on Ebay at the manual bead breakers/tyre fitters and balancing equipment, just wondering what everyone else is using?

Stew

Can't give you much info yet, but this link shows basically what I am in the process of making up myself.

I have the changing jig 90% complete, however I have not done a change yet with mine but am confident it will work just as easily as in the video.

I am hoping this will enable me to easily do my own changes at home. I've made a couple of roller bearing carriers to sit on my car workshop stands for balancing and that works really well so far.

I got the hard plastic debeading tool from an Adelaide site for about $44.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSLJPlNA ... ata_player

Hope this helps.

I keep thinking about it too, they charged me £15 a wheel at snetterton compared to the £10 a wheel I got charged at Cadwell last year and I'm probably gonna have to change em again at Cadwell and that's quite a bit of the cost of one of those basic manual bead breakers and balancing rigs.

Abba do a kit for about £175 with bead breaker and balancer, levers etc

But I'm sure some people have posted up that they've used this type as well http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TYC-MOTORCYCLE-TY ... 483b0b7503

And then this is available from the same people http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STWN-Motorcycle-p ... 484120a8ab

Was it Millar that bought a proper shop type rig for a couple of hundred or something.

I use an Abba beadbreaker and balance frame. Any good franchise tyre supplies company will supply you with weights, levers, rim protectors. All you need then is a compressor and some washing up liquid and a nice pair of rubber gloves so you dont get your mitts dirty!

I spoke to a guy on the Dunlop stand in the IOM one year and he was of the opinion that most balancing machines in bike shops were well out of sync and you were far better off balancing carefully using a balance frame. I never bother balancing the rear rim. Never bothered balancing either rim on the track but was very careful to balance the front before a road race.

I do!
Just using a simple bead breaker, some nice tyre levers and basic balancer equipment, all bought at the local car-superstore.
It could feel a bit tricky the first times, but you'll soon get the hang of it. I have changed a handful of tyres for mates and my selves..........no complaints so far.

I have been mounting my tyres for 35 years +. The hardest part is breaking the bead. A buddy made a lever bead breaker and gave it to me for christmas that I mounted to the shop wall. It's a angle iron 2 x 2 that pivots on the wall with another 2 x 2 that is bolted and pivots. When you are using it one member is horizional bolted to the wall and the other member is vertical which has a nice oval shape of flat bar that will push the tyre off the wheel bead as you apply pressure to the horizional member. This tool does not need to be made from steel. It could be made of 2 x 4 wood. As for a balancer you can make a stand and use 4 skate board wheel bearings to saddle your axle. Another option is to buy a balance kit from Aerostich SP? The kit will fit in your tool box and has an balance shaft, bearing housing and two tapered cones to trap the wheel on the balance shaft. Tubeless tyres are a piece of cake to change compaired to a dirt bike rear wheel with a tube and rim locks. One day soon I will figure how to post pictures on this site, (along with the spell checker). As you might have figured, I know more about motorcycles than web sites.

Just come across this handy tip!

http://www.webbikeworld.com/t2/bead-bre ... reaker.htm

A 12 inch woodworking G clamp and 2 pieces of 1/2 inch plywood always works for me

There's the 2 x 4 wood lever I was talking about on a prev. post! It works great! And cheap! Here is the aerostich.com supplier for the compact wheel balancer I refered to. Just do a search on the aerostich site for compact wheel balancer.

An even cheaper and easier bead breaker option - a lawn edger -



So ive decided to go for it, costs llok like this -

Wheel balancer £40 (this is the most expensive part)
Bead breaker (lawn edger ) £5
Tyre Levers £8
Wheel weights £3
Tyre valve tool £1.50
Rim protectors £4
Can of pledge (bead lube) £1.50

Total cost £60 odd - just gonna take some practice with the tyre levers

I've been doing mine for a couple of years now.

I would recommend buying one of the TYC beadbreakers that someone else posted a link for earlier because honestly thats the hardest part & it saves so much hassle, its totally worth it & it gives you a platform to work from as well. I just had to wrap a few spots with an old inner tube to stop the rim getting rubbed in a couple of places. I see so many people struggling with weird homemade beadbreakers at the track & it just seems like a headache, some of those beads can be really tight.

I also just chuck on and use 4 rim protecters because its easier than trying to slide 2 or 3 around to different places, just put all 4 on & start at 1 then by the time you get to the 4th 1 you can pull the rest off by hand. iI use 1 long tyre lever & 2 shorter spoon type ones.

Takes me about 15mins to remove & refit one once the wheels out of the bike.

On my CRF supermoto & SV650 i don't bother balancing them but i took my SD ones (faster top speed so i thought i better get them done!) to the local dealer & he balances them for free for me.

Did my 1st tyre change tonight, took me about 45mins including removal/refit and balancing of the wheel!

Its gonna take some practice with the tyre levers etc but quite satisfying when the jobs done

Il take the advice given above and order another 2 rim protectors which will make life easier!

A £5 lawn edging tool breaks the beads perfectly

And getting the beads to POP is easy with a normal foot pump so i dont even have to pop round to the local garage to use the airline

Wel find out in the morning if the tyre still has air in it

Takes me a couple of minutes, but I cheat..............

Must admit I'm tempted to go this way as well. As long as I don't damage my rims. As I change my own dirt tyres as well it could be a win, win getting the right kit.

My biggest concern would be damaging my rims. Where did you pick up all your stuff m8? Fleabay?

What's this?
Is this just an expensive bead breaker or does it do more?
http://www.sealey.co.uk/PLPageBuilder.a ... uctid=8457
I've seen these for £49.90 delivered.

http://www.nomartirechanger.com/

Great attention is paid to having all parts that contact the tyre be made out of nylon. Watch their videos, it's as easy as they show.

I bought myself one of these....

http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/Motorcycle ... aley-TC965

Works really well, the stand means you can work at waist height rather than scrabbling around on the floor.
Just get several rim protectors and some extra tyre levers and bob's yer knob.

Or one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Motion-Pro-Mo ... 1488wt_905

In the UK http://www.dirtbikebitz.com/motion-pro- ... 10209.html

Still hopeing im gonna make it on the Tuesday!

Demos no problem - im not spending my day changing tyres tho

Told you it was easy jules! the second 1 i did was even easier, did a front today in 8 mins start to finish

This is the gear i use,i'll state now though that i'm not quick fitting my tyre's but i get the job done and balanced.

8 mins for a front Stew is some going mate,nice one i sit and look at mine for a bit while drinking tea then eventually get round to it.

Where do you get your valve cores from?