04-25-2019, 10:13 PM
(04-25-2019, 09:43 PM)chync_imp Wrote: My first tire change went the same way. But like anything else it just takes some experience and practice. There are techniques and tools that make the job easier. I heat my new tire by placing a hair dryer inside it while I’m unmounting the old one. It goes on like a soft glove. But it wasn’t until I replaced 3 sets of tires that it became much easier.
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By the way there are some great YouTube videos of people going step by step to do many common maintenance procedures. That is how I learned.
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lol my friend i think if i attempted 3 sets of tire changes I would die on set number 2. There was a point yesterday where I was just laid out on my back on the garage floor. i literally could not move i was so exhausted. I've walked over 20 miles in summer heat with a backpack, i've moved my entire household on and off a 20 foot truck multiple times in my life by myself, i've unloaded semis full of cabinetry and into rich people's homes, I actually successfully got a honda RLET over a brake lever and i have NEVER done anything so arduous as putting on a rear tire of a motorcycle wheel.
as for the videos....they were kind of the source of the problem. really, it was trying to follow those videos that mislead me so terribly. they make no attempt to explain to you that you absolutely cannot do it without a full size air compressor. they make no attempt to explain the ratchet strap method. they make no attempt to explain to you just how impossibly difficult the levering of the tire over the rim actually is. they just slide the tire on like it's made of neoprene. What i needed was to watch a real person really do it in real life in front of me, then i would have understood all the intricacies before attempting it.