DIY Tyre Fitting

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Over both ends of the bike that's halfway to a decent night in the pub!

I don't drink

[skeetly]

Originally Posted by Lozzo

I don't drink

Really?

Well... not very often. I don't go to pubs on a regular basis, unless you count twie a year in Derbyshire as regular (I'll be in the Black Horse tomorrow night drinking Coke)

[skeetly]

Heh. I dont really 'do' pubs either.
But I've been known to over do it; in restaurants, fields, livings rooms and so on.........

[Richie]

PM Berlin...

two pieces of wood and a car jack, a few pieces of hose pipe, tyre leavers and force.... a battery air compressor & slime.
then the balancing, a wooden frame and lead sticky back weights.
Jobs a good en.

Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker

No serious mention of the balancing after fitting and having the proper weights available

You mean generally? I use proper weights and balance it, I don't have a balancing tool though, so this is the one place I "hack" - pair of axle stands, wheel balanced between them using the axle. Gives it a nice level surface to do the balancing (of course you need to know how to do it but that's a Google away).

I like Chris's flammable gas method. I did something similar many years ago using .22cal blanks in what amounted to a zip gun threaded onto the coreless valve stem. Even though it purposely could not fire a projectile it was nevertheless forbidden regardless of licences and it nearly had me arrested a couple of times. Cops are humourless with this sort of thing so in the end I gave it up because it just wasn't worth the hassle.

Cheers