On the topic of tires what kinds of tools are out there to set up for home tire changing without getting into a commercial grade machine?
Homemade. Three spanner wrenches with one end cut off, grinded, and with a notch. The notch is key and I’m surprised that the store bought ones don’t have a notch. The notch gives a feel and indication so you don’t insert the lever too far as to damage the tube, or rim band.
bead breaker from Royal Distributing, about $50 delivered when it goes on sale. $120 for same balancer as above at Princess Auto when it goes on sale. Princess also has long levers, but no notches in em. Good idea though. I have already saved money by having these tools. At $40 each to change a tire at a shop, it adds up.
The balancer at Princess Auto is practically identical to the one above. There are several different makers of the bead breaker, and of course several prices. The one I have I actually bought from H1, and has a nice thick rubber coating on the top ring....to protect the motorcycle rim a little better.
Thanks for the input, reasonable cost for those tools. Lyndon Poskitt’s tire change video he had the same style bead breaker on a stand and made it look super easy.
I have my bead break bolted to my bench with some u-bolts. Very secure and yes, makes it fairly easy.
I've been thinking about getting a bead breaker but with it only being $27 + tax to have a tire changed and balanced over here, it's not worth it to me right now. Besides, I just got 15,000 km out of a rear Shinko Verge 011 and 23,000 out of the front Shinko Verge 011 (could have gotten 25,000 I am sure). I don't think I would get enough use out of one... mind you, I may get more friends lol.
