Changing road bike tyres?

[boman]

Hi

I've recently brought a sv1000n and need to put a new set of tires on it.
Given that the local bike shop wants $600 to supply (and I hope - fit) a set of conti road attack 2's and I can get a set from cycle treads for $500 I'm keen to find out how hard it is to change them myself.

I change my trail bike and trials bike(tubeliss) tires myself using a frame thingy I brought from torpedo7 which includes a bread breaker. I also have access to a grunty air compressor (which I needed to seat the bitch of a tubeliss trials tire)

Are road bike tires that much harder to change?
Or are they any more fragile (sidewalls etc)?

is static ballancing sufficient?

do any of the car tire places like Tony's etc fit bike tires?

Don't bother doing it yourself. If you fuck a bead, then you throw the tyre away. So where is the saving then?

It is not as easy as you think it is. And any reputable tyre shop should be able to fit the tyres.

[pete376403]

Home made bead breaker. Works great. This plus a rubber mallet for refitting the tyre afterward, no damage to rim or beads.

[cs363]

You'd be surprised how many people in bike shops don't seem to know what the little dot means.

Not just bike shops either - I'm amazed how many car tyre shops don't seem to know either!

[marks]

feck

it took me two months to get around to doing something...

I brought a set of Pilot Road 4's from nvmoto in hamilton and because I asked the local bike shop if they could match the nvmoto price (which they couldn’t) they were happy to fit the tires to the rims for me.

I hadn’t realized how much the PR1's that were on the bike had squared off (they had between 13k and 14k on them) until I road it today with the pr4's

I did a loop around the back roads of the Wairarapa and up around Apiti and Kimbolton and the new tires seem to do the business. lots of damp corners and not one bobble (bike) or clench (me)

It has to be said that the pr1's never gave me any problems either....