Changing a sportbike tyre on a budget

[owner]

Pretty handy, if you dont mind marking up your rims. just thought Id share
Whats the best price youve had for swaping a tyre? cost me 40 for a swap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrl15...eature=related

[Usarka]

The words budget and sportsbike don't belong in the same sentence...!

[AllanB]

Hmmm I suspect his rims would be messed up.

No indication there of correct axle nut torque (good grief is he using a stock tool kit?).

And most important especially on a sport bike - balance.

I do like the DIY bead breaker he has constructed.

[owner]

axle torque spec. Ha HA
balance. ha ha I dont think hes tryn win the gp, maybe burn out tyre
Whats wrong with the toolkit it works. Ha HA
But yeah the bead breaker was what I was getting at

[rudolph]

I do all the tyres at work with hand levers, I have a cople of plastic things i put on the edge for when i lever the first bit of the bead over, I have a better bead braker tho, if you are cearful the rim will be fine.

[lb99]

I do all the tyres at work with hand levers, I have a cople of plastic things i put on the edge for when i lever the first bit of the bead over, I have a better bead braker tho, if you are cearful the rim will be fine.

thats exactly how I do all my tyres too, except my beadbreaker is attached to the wall and about 1.8mtr long.

its no problem if you are careful

[rudolph]

you can even make a home made static wheel balancer.

[R6_kid:Me]

balance might be something to worry about...

I never used a torque wrench on my R6 rear wheel, just the stock tool kit - never had it come loose in 35,000km.

But also going by his name, i'd assume that bike isnt gonna be used for high speed stuff.

[Katman]

Why mess around with the chain adjusters? If you take the axle out you can move the wheel forward enough to get the chain off.

[gav]

Get mine done free if I take in wheel only.

[FROSTY:Me]

Balancing isn't such a black art. Static balancing on a hand made jig takes a couple of minutes and is MORE accurate than on a machine.
-Ive got a bead breaker tool that cost $100 with levers changing a sprot bike tyre aint hard

[Tony.OK]

My bead breaker consists of a 4' piece of 4x2,a short block to rest on tyre and the underside of my car,works a treatand it cost me nothing.
Yeah i'm a rough buggar,but i'm really slow.

[BASS-TREBLE]

We have the tyre machines at work with a bead breaker but when i get talking to mx riders some use their stands as a bead breaker.
I have heard of this a few times even the 2 germans on the 650 Dakars told us that they lean the stand of the other bike on it. Mind you it only works with 2 bikes I guess.

[DEATH_INC.]

He he, I got the best of both worlds, I've got machines at work, and I can do 'em by hand in my sleep......
You can break the bead with any hard square edged object....I've used my 4X4, a block of wood, a trailer jockey wheel and even a beadbreaker!!
As for balancing, never balanced a sprotbike tyre in my life, even on the mighty ZX12 at over 300k's they're fine.....