Getting online bought tyres fitted?

[stuR]

Sorry think this should be bike stuff...

I was hoping either to get a part worn rear tyre for my cb500, or a brand new one online(as the cost is £72!) as the tread is getting pretty low. I am selling the bike in aug so trying to avoid the £120 brand new and fitted from the tyre place if i can avoid it. What are your experiences with getting shops to fit either part worns or ones bought elsewhere? IIRC they generally dont do it or charge alot for the priviledge..or if anyone know somewhere that stocks and fits part worns near reading that would be handy. The tyre is 130/80/17/v. I have avon roadriders front and rear atm though not too fussy what i replace it with, but the avons seem common.

[FG1]

When my K6 was written off I had an almost new rear tyre on it. I went to my local tyre fitter who swapped it for an old one and charged me £20. That meant that I had a nice tyre at home instead of going away with the bike...

[Tomor]

Take your loose wheels and the new tyre to Mark at ride in tyres , in reading. He doesn't stock part worns AFAIK, but I took some Metzelers for the V Strom I bought from busters online, and he fitted them for £30 cash.

[Wideboy]

some tyre shops cop a strop that you didn't buy it from them and refuse to fit it due to them not being able to guarantee it's safety of some poo.

most normal bikes shops will do it and has FG1 said 20 quid is the norm. It soon adds up if you do it often so I'm doing my own now

[stuR]

Yeah i usually go to Mark but couldnt get thru to him today, and i wasnt sure he fitted online tyres. Super..might mean i can get a new rear for £90 or so which will be good

[Fallout]

Mike at Ride In will remove a tyre, fix a puncture and refit and balance for a tenner, so I suspect he'd do it cheap. Perhaps tell him you bought them off a mate who didn't need them to avoid the cop a strop Gav is talking about, though he comes across very chilled.

He doesn't sell race/track tyres so I don't expect a strop when I take mine down to be fitted.

[Steve_God]

Take it to a local garage with loose wheels and they'll charge anywhere between £10 and £20 to swap each wheel (if it's for 2, I tend to find it's never normally more than £30).
If you take it in without the wheels being loose, they'll charge much more for their time.

There are also people who come out to you and swap tyres, but you end up forking out for their petrol costs too which can soon get expensive.

[stuR]

Sweet, Mark is sorting me a new avon tyre for £84 fitted loose. It would cost me £72 to buy online, so im not sure how hes making much money!

[johnnyrod]

The tyre sellers make their money on the tyres not the fitting, which is why they're reluctant (=£££) to fit tyres they haven't sold.

[daveyrach]

Yeah i usually go to Mark but couldnt get thru to him today, and i wasnt sure he fitted online tyres. Super..might mean i can get a new rear for £90 or so which will be good

He does fit loose tyres, I bought a pair of brand new Diablo Strada's online and he fitted them to loose wheels for £10 per wheel. In total cost me £125 for a pair of tyres fitted.

http://www.rideinbiketyres.co.uk/

[Phoenix22]

It's easy enough to change tyres yourself. been doing mine for years.

[daveyrach]

It's easy enough to change tyres yourself. been doing mine for years.

I asked this question a while ago and it seemed long winded and you needed all sort of guff to do it, for £10 a wheel you can't really go wrong.

[stuR]

Id love to learn to do it, but for the amount of tyres i go through its not worth it for me. Itll cost me £150 odd for the kit, that would take me years to get back and id rather let an expert touch the tyres, i do everything else on the bike so not too worried

[Phoenix22]

Don't need that much stuff to do it really....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anyY0UO5gqk

[stuR]

Yeah but even if i used a home made bead breaker like his, im looking at at least £90 for levers, a balancer, weights, rim guards and new valves. So i could make my money back in 9 tyres, but for me thats gona be like 4 years at least, so not really worth it short term.

[Purity14]

i used zip ties - no tools req.
i broke the bead using a car jack in a doorway.

[stuR]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6WPzRRJLpA ? Interesting, but that stll requires me to buy £60 worth of balancer and valves ;)

[Phoenix22]

You don't need a balancer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2AuivYzaBs

Probably the hardest part is breaking the bead. I just used a scissor jack under the back step of the tranny van but thats gone now so may have to get a proper one. Mind you, I do get through quite a lot of tyres so well worth it for me.

[stuR]

But he uses a balancer there to hold the wheel? I realise you could probabl make something at home, but again its another cost and another tool that will mostly sit unused :)

[Phoenix22]

I just use a length of copper pipe through the bearings resting accross a couple of chairs. Spin the wheel a few times & mark the light bit of the wheel that repeatedly settles at the top and add stick on lead weights here until the wheel settles in random places, seemples.

[Fallout]

I'm with you Stu. Feck that for a bag of chips!

[Fordward]

My tyre changing equipment consists of two blocks of wood, the heel of my boot, a pair of levers that were 12 quid on ebay, a 12v air compressor, and two axle stands to hold the wheel spindle while I balance it, a bunch of wheel weights, and a bit of fairy liquid.