This is awesome!JGardy_781;283808 wrote: I change my tires the old-fashioned way when I'm at home - spoons, manual bead breaker, static balancer, etc. I'm pretty quick with it, and have been doing it for more than a decade, and I'm probably down to about 45 mins to an hour for the full cycle per tire (pull from bike, remove tire, install new tire, balance, reinstall) - time varies mostly depending upon how much beer I drink during the change.
I don't like to have to pull the bike apart at the track, if at all possible, and I'm too cheap to invest in better tools for something I only do a handful of times a year (or, perhaps, not cheap, rather, my disposable income is consumed largely by 2 boys and a spouse, leaving precious little for shiny new tools). The economics of the situation truly don't work out, really, if you were to consider my "hourly rate" elsewhere in life, so in reality, it "costs" a lot for the changes in terms of opportunity cost. I consider the garage time therapeutic, I guess.D-Zum;283954 wrote: Honestly..why not just let the tire vendor at the track do the swap with a tire purchase? It's free and a lot less effort.
We are wired alike!JGardy_781;283975 wrote: I consider the garage time therapeutic, I guess.
Because I don't want to wait on 5-8 guys in front of me to get my tire changedD-Zum;283954 wrote: Honestly..why not just let the tire vendor at the track do the swap with a tire purchase? It's free and a lot less effort.
I only use soap and water....on my aluminum wheels. I've never had a problem. But then again, I don't ride a 19 year old Ducati, so maybe I don't own my bikes long enough to see the long term side effects.akosi;284109 wrote: I heard windex works as well whats your opinion?