Changing your own tyres

[GerryAttrick]

A clip for those DIY bikers

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...09776315225781

As always you take your chances

[Dani-D]

I was just now out in the garage having a cry trying to get my rear wheel back on! Tears were flowing freely too.

What a pr!ck of a job, having to hold up the weight of the wheel AND line everything up again!! Its just not meant to be done alone OR by me, I'm not strong enough for long enough to hold the weight while I try to jiggle it into place AND slam the axle home.


AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH

[vagrant]

Try using a block of wood as a prop for the wheel.
Roll the wheel as far forward as you can between the swingarm, position the chain on the sprocket, and the wood under the axle line, then roll the wheel back into the chain, and up onto the wood.
Adjust the position of the wood until the axle lines up and slides home.
Easy as. No lifting, just rolling.

[Owl]

I was just now out in the garage having a cry trying to get my rear wheel back on! Tears were flowing freely too.

What a pr!ck of a job, having to hold up the weight of the wheel AND line everything up again!! Its just not meant to be done alone OR by me, I'm not strong enough for long enough to hold the weight while I try to jiggle it into place AND slam the axle home.


AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH

Or you could buy a Triumph with single sided swiwgarm and wheel fitting is a breeze. Though you'd need a 46mm socket!

[Dani-D]

A block of wood.

Thats what my head must have been made out of last night

Thats such a simple and obvious solution I feel like a complete tool now!

I wasted my time anyway as it rained hard out this morning so I took the car. Took 30mins to get all the grease out from under my nails too!

[southernmike]

Or you could buy a Triumph with single sided swiwgarm and wheel fitting is a breeze. Though you'd need a 46mm socket!

I got a 46mm socket from my 955i days. I'm yet to find another use for it so it sits in a drawer. If I get rid of it I'll need it. Bloody nice and shiny though!

[mouldy]

R6 wheels are easy to get in and out just be happy its not a Gold Wing

[CookMySock]

I put the bike on the sidestand and a jack under the middle - raise and lower the jack until the axle height is right. DONT lower the jack suddenly.

Steve

[Fatjim]

I was just now out in the garage having a cry trying to get my rear wheel back on! Tears were flowing freely too.

What a pr!ck of a job, having to hold up the weight of the wheel AND line everything up again!! Its just not meant to be done alone OR by me, I'm not strong enough for long enough to hold the weight while I try to jiggle it into place AND slam the axle home.


AAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH

Sorry las, but this is why you need a bloke.

[AllanB]

Took 30mins to get all the grease out from under my nails too!

You can get a pack of 10 latex gloves from the supermarket for about $350 - very handy when mucking about with chains and dirty wheels.

[kiwi cowboy]

You can get a pack of 10 latex gloves from the supermarket for about $350 - very handy when mucking about with chains and dirty wheels.

$350? me thinks there's sposed to be a ...... in there someplace

[Dani-D]

Sorry las, but this is why you need a bloke.

Have one but the army has borrowed him to help make sand castles overseas

You can get a pack of 10 latex gloves from the supermarket for about $350 - very handy when mucking about with chains and dirty wheels.

I keep ripping gloves when I get frustrated. My hands get too sweaty as well, but grease is worse. I'm looking for those real tough blue nitrile ones. That will solve the issue

[CrazyFrog]

I clean my hands with my girlfriends moisturiser (don't tell her or my mates) after being in the man-cave tinkering with greasy parts, works a treat and gets the gunk out from under ya nails easy. The lengths we go to when we scrub up! Seems to work better than hand cleaner. Or go the heavier duty nitrile gloves, but ya hands still get sweaty.

[Dani-D]

I used Swarfega first then bulk moisturiser to stop the skin cracking after

[Owl]

I keep ripping gloves when I get frustrated. My hands get too sweaty as well, but grease is worse. I'm looking for those real tough blue nitrile ones. That will solve the issue

There are better gloves than Nitrile, Vinyl and Latex out there. We use some at work which are more resistant to solvents and I think they're about $20 for a box of 100. I can't remember what they are called off hand, but they're dark blue.