Tire Changing

[Steve]

Got back about an hour ago, ddaniels now has two tires on his nice, shiny rims, and they are very well balanced, too.

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[ddaniels]

Once again, thanks so much for the help! It's nice having a GS mechanic that makes house calls. (He even leaves his card)

Both tires and rims are now safely back on the bike, and that balancing act the bike was doing is now over. Thank goodness, it was making my stomach queazy.

[Larry D]

I've just returned from a tire 'rasslin match at Brian's garage/shop and auto repair center.....I though I's take a few pics of his setup as mentioned earlier in the thread.

Here's a 14" tire rim bolted down to his bench, as you can see there is ample padding for bike rim and it's deep enough to accomodate the brake rotors, it's also makes for bolting the bike rim down for more stability when 'rassling the tires on and off.



Here's the bead breaking setup.


And here it is in action. This tire is off my '81 GS 750L, it's got about 5,000 miles on it and still wasn't quite to the wear indicators, but, the valve stem started leaking and it was close enough to change it.


Nice new Shinko 712, the last had about 5000 miles on it. A little balancing and....All done !! Thanks Brian !!

[bwringer]

Egads, that old rim I use for a changing stand sure didn't need any light down in there. Ewww...


Those white things are spilled Dynabeads from another tire change last week. Damn things are nearly impossible to corral.

[waterman]

I've just returned from a tire 'rasslin match at Brian's garage/shop and auto repair center.....I though I's take a few pics of his setup as mentioned earlier in the thread.

Here's a 14" tire rim bolted down to his bench, as you can see there is ample padding for bike rim and it's deep enough to accomodate the brake rotors, it's also makes for bolting the bike rim down for more stability when 'rassling the tires on and off.



Here's the bead breaking setup.


And here it is in action. This tire is off my '81 GS 750L, it's got about 5,000 miles on it and still wasn't quite to the wear indicators, but, the valve stem started leaking and it was close enough to change it.


Nice new Shinko 712, the last had about 5000 miles on it. A little balancing and....All done !! Thanks Brian !!

I like the anchoring of the post to floor for bead breaker, that thinking.

What is under the wheel that you are removing bead from? I see the floor mat, but it looks like a wooden crate under wheel. I may engineer a similar system since my method of using smallish vice is slow at best.

[Larry D]

Yep, a small wooden crate that's deep enough to accept the rotor. It's a pretty sturdy little crate.

[bwringer]

I swear, my garage really isn't as filthy as it looks...

Anyway, one thing I think I'll add is some sort of arrangement to hold the tire in place during bead breaking, other than stepping on the opposite side of the tire.

Or perhaps add a bracket anchored to the wall behind the tire stand -- that way, I could break the bead and change the tire all in the same place.

It all works well, it was very cheap, is reasonably fast to use, and everything mostly disappears when not in use. So I'm happy changing tires this way.