Cool Tools

**NordieBoy** · 28th April 2012, 19:20

Originally Posted by pete-blen

Do you remember the first time yer changed a tyre with levers?

I do... riped the bead rubber to bits..big guages in the rim & about 4 goes before
I got it with out pinching the tube...like

I pinched the tube 5 times...

That last bit is always a struggle though...

**Padmei** · 28th April 2012, 20:00

Originally Posted by pete-blen

Do you remember the first time yer changed a tyre with levers?

I do... riped the bead rubber to bits..big guages in the rim & about 4 goes before
I got it with out pinching the tube...like

I thought for minute you were describing my 1st time- I was wondering how you saw it

Sometimes they go easy & others are a bword.

**zeRax** · 28th April 2012, 21:50

pretty darn cool, but not for the price, and cbf making one, and everyones better off with more practice for out in the field imo :P

**bart** · 28th April 2012, 22:37

Cool idea, but I'd have to see someone do a 17" DR rim before I'd commit. You don't just lean on one of those suckers to pop the tyre into the rim well.

Looks like an MX 18 or 19" which are as soft as butter anyway.

**pete-blen** · 28th April 2012, 23:01

Originally Posted by bart

Cool idea, but I'd have to see someone do a 17" DR rim before I'd commit. You don't just lean on one of those suckers to pop the tyre into the rim well.

Looks like an MX 18 or 19" which are as soft as butter anyway.

Yer maybe right... but
stop the vid..have a look..
Theres a 20 or 25:1 ratio there... for every Kg he applys there 20 or 25kgs
of thrust on the tyre... a tyre levers only giveing a 4 or 5:1 ratio..
you apply 4kgs of preasure thats 80 / 100kgs of thrust..

**Tony W** · 28th April 2012, 23:14

NOT COOL BROS.....don't get too premature about it !

DOES IT TAKE TYRES OFF TOO ??????......( if it does I will stand erected )

Oh shit, so we still have to carry tyre levers as well ?.... LOFL not

My whanger is a far cooler and more useful tool than that ..... shall I post a pic of that !!!!!

( and YES, I do have Macro, Iceholes )

**NordieBoy** · 29th April 2012, 08:01

Originally Posted by Tony W

NOT COOL BROS.....don't get too premature about it !

DOES IT TAKE TYRES OFF TOO ??????......( if it does I will stand erected )

Oh shit, so we still have to carry tyre levers as well ?.... LOFL not

My whanger is a far cooler and more useful tool than that ..... shall I post a pic of that !!!!!

( and YES, I do have Macro, Iceholes )

Not worried about taking them off. Putting them on with minimal effort and least chances of damaging the tube and bead is great. It can take me 45mins to get a tyre on

I'd be looking at it being a shed tool normally.

**Brian d marge** · 29th April 2012, 11:12

Tyres

use you hands until the last bit then a quick flick with a lever or dead blow hammer , dont need that thing

Stephen

**Oscar** · 29th April 2012, 11:33

Originally Posted by Brian d'marge

Tyres

use you hands until the last bit then a quick flick with a lever or dead blow hammer , dont need that thing

Stephen

You never put a 150/80 knobblie on a 950adv, didja?

**Padmei** · 29th April 2012, 13:03

Originally Posted by Oscar

You never put a 150/80 knobblie on a 950adv, didja?

Or anything on a bmw GS either

**pete-blen** · 29th April 2012, 13:18

Or a 6 ply Teleborg on any rim..
what a bastard of a job that was
my first & LAST 6 ply tyre...

Edit...

I had a play around
with the Rack & pinion.
30mm Dia pinion / 16X16 rack..
The rack could be longer.. but I
used what I had...
The pinion is able to advance the rack 60mm..

So I will get some steel this week & nibble away
at a few...

By petenz at 2012-04-28

**Brainflex** · 29th April 2012, 15:05

I would love one of them. Gotta be so much easier than pinching tubes.

**Tony W** · 29th April 2012, 16:07

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

I pinched the tube 5 times...

That last bit is always a struggle though...

Yeh, 1975, DT360, 1st tyre change- 3 pinches !

Later that decade I read somewhere that you should part-inflate your tube a bit (mouth pressure will suffice)
This means inserting the valve after part-inflation.

This makes the tyre lever slide across your tube if there is any contact.
You don't get that squidgy 'uh-oh' sensation thru the lever as you pinch your tube

'' Please do try it ''.... said the Dilmah man.