Re: Tire goes.... POP
- Author: Moped Poet (---.home1.cgocable.net)
- Verified User: targaped
- Date Posted: 05-05-08 17:47
$25 is reasonable, especially when they’re hard to find. If you try to replace the tire yourself first of all and I mean don’t try the job without one, buy a tire iron from a motorcycle shop .. you’ll never regret it .. lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and LOTS of frustration and sweat and possibly injured fingers and damaged tires and tubes saved. Buy two if they’re cheap .. or use the box end of a wrench for the second one. The tire iron is a specially curved lever with shaped ends designed not to puncture the tube or cut the tire. To get the tire to separate from the rim I sometimes have to stand on the rubber (wheel lying on the ground of course) and jump a bit. But put a large rag on the ground under the hub so you won’t get dirt in the hub.
Getting the tire to ‘pop’ back onto the rim can be difficult. Baby powder the edge of the tire and where the tire fits into the rim .. inflate partially .. check to see if the tire is round on the rim (there should be a bead line) if the tire is out of round, work the tire round with your hands, inflate more, round the tire, inflate more, round the tire, and then you may have to overinflate the tube to get the tire to pop on. If all ese fails, try ‘bouncing’ the inflated wheel like a basketball – turning the wheel as you bounce it. Bounce it as hard as you can control .. turn .. bounce .. turn .. bounce. But a huge secret forumla is the baby powder .. a good quality like Johnsons, because some powder is gritty. DON’T forget to deflate the popped tire to what the tire calls for in pressure.
Read my other post about baby powdering the tube and tire to prevent friction holes.
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