TIRE IRONS

[jasonlamar]

I know this is an old thread, but recently I watched a friend change an mx tire for me.  Thats the best way I know how.

He did it with a rubber mallet and windex.  Once you get the tube in, you just beat the tire on.  It takes a good thump and eye hand coordination, but I've never seen it done faster.  Faster than a machine even.  No pinched tube either.

[thrownchain]

Yep, lots 'o lube and a big hammer, works most times. We've been doing farm tires that way for years.

[Rain Man]

9 years later and up pops this post!
 I wonder how much that dealer charges now!
 since then my most harrowing tire change experience was an old Harley tire that the rim had rusted into the tire bead.
 I had to use a come along to extract it. inch by inch
 Blacksmith-ing at its best !!
 Sometimes after 30 years of sitting, things want to gel together permanently.

Raymond
 Down East Pentons