I bet that shorter sidewall was a pain to get on.
New tires, slow leak
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I bet that shorter sidewall was a pain to get on.
michael parris heuberger
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Hi. OH! YES.&%#÷< in the tail.
Mythos
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I agree with you about NOT letting idiots change tires but that Rabaconda just looks like a fancy tire changing stand you use tire irins and rim protectors with. I have a tire changing stand I got for about $60 10 years ago. You're right, it is hard work and I mean really hard! Nothing about bike maintenance I have ever done is anywhere near as physiclly demanding as changing tires with tire irons. It takes me a full day to remove and mount a set of tires on a motorcycle. I am extremely careful about not damaging the rims but I have put some scratches on the inside by accident. There's a couple tiny marks on the bead surface of one rim. SUre, you can get good at it and it goes much easier and faster that's going to take a few decades if you only change tires once every year or two. I'm just warning you about what you seem to already expect, tire changing with irons will be incredibly difficult and time consuming.
Never. I use Cycle hill tire lube. I don't know if it seals. I used dish soap a couple times. No sealant necessary.
A tire on my truck recently started a slow leak. I was told alloy wheels do that. The bead surface accumulates oxidation and it should be polished off before installing new tires. Are our wheels alloy? I think they are, they aren't steel. Even steel rims leak with age. All my cars throughout life developed slow leaks on at least one tire before I had the tires changed.
I've heard good things about No-Mars and they are made to use with a delrin tipped bar instead of tire irons, aren't they?
I plan to go all the way to a Cycle Hill tire changer, the one with the big delrin wheel clamps. It should be safe for even carbon fiber wheels. The Cycle Hill changer can be mounted to a truck hitch reciever so there's no way it's moving under the leverage which I have no doubt is considerable. There's no way in hell I would bring CF wheels to a shop unless it was run by a very close and trusted friend.
"Pretty easy?" Haven't tried one but I've been told even the Cycle Hill tire changer is not nearly as easy as they make it look in their videos. It seems like the best candidate to fill the lesser of two evils spot when comparing it to a regular tire stand and tire irons. ...and bringing wheels to a professional? Some are good but when they're bad, there really bad and you get busted stuff back and no replacement. A friend had tires changed on his BMW S1000rr CF rims. They busted the tire pressure sensor. You're not supposed to clamp on that but they didn't know I guess and they did. Over $2000 for a new rim after the shop covered a pittance. My buddy had gone to that shop for years and had hundreds of tires changed. He still goes there because....he has less trust in other shops and he doesn't want to do it himself...or he'd have been doing it years ago. He gets about 500 miles out of a rear tire.
I've had the Rabaconda dirt tire changer for several years, and changed many a street bike tire with it, which is much like any other motorcycle tire changer, alot of physical effort to get them on and off.
I have also used Alot of different tire changers and machines over the years, as I have been mounting and balancing my own motorcycle tires for a couple decades now.
I also bought a Rabaconda Street tire changer earlier this year, and I can assure you that it is Nothing like Any other tire changer, and the only thing as easy would be an electronic machine.
I have changed countless tires, and can tell you from first hand experience that the Rabaconda Street works incredibly well, and changes tires with ease.
It is well worth buying for anyone who doesn't want to fight tires on a manual machine...which I was tired of doing.
It also folds away into a very small bag, needs very little space to set up, and is nowhere near the cost or size of an electronic machine.
I still change quite a few tires, and the Rabaconda Street is well worth it.
Correct, Delrin clamps and bar tip so, never had issues with damaging wheels.
I just changed my first motorcycle tire ever on the Rabaconda and I did not find it very physical at all, being my first tire change I expected it to be much more difficult but it was relatively easy.
Aren’t they over $600?
But worth it
If you read my bad experiences above (6 damaged wheels) it’s Absolutely worth it to me. What pi$$es me off is I can take an old F-350 work truck with painted steel wheels and have all 6 tires replaced and they won’t put a mark on any wheel. Ha ha
I doubt I’ll go thru a dozen or more tires again. Shoulda got one years ago.
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I mounted up a new set on the RS1250 last night . Angel GT's 120/6017 up front . was easy . I average 3 sets a year for myself , 1 set every two years for the wife , and 5 plus sets for friends.
On Balancing tips and tricks . Never remove old weights to start . Why you ask well often the wheel has the same heavy spot , and tires today are made very well .
The RS last night on its rear wheel went from .75 OZ to a .25 OZ but in the same spot on wheel . All I did was remove a 1/4 oz at a time till it was balanced .
The Front did get relocated slightly and was also reduced by a 1/4 oz .
On Balancing tips and tricks . Never remove old weights to start . Why you ask well often the wheel has the same heavy spot , and tires today are made very well .
The RS last night on its rear wheel went from .75 OZ to a .25 OZ but in the same spot on wheel . All I did was remove a 1/4 oz at a time till it was balanced .
The Front did get relocated slightly and was also reduced by a 1/4 oz .
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