26-08-21, 10:12 PM | #51 | |
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Put it another way ,how much should you expect to pay for having tyres fitted to the bike ,balancing, disposing of old tyres etc (excluding cost of actual tyres )? I thought it used to be about £20 a tyre but not sure. |
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27-08-21, 11:24 AM | #52 |
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£20 is about right fitted to the bike.
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27-08-21, 04:53 PM | #53 | |
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pay peanuts get monkeys. find a reputable fitter and stick with them. make sure that they use rim protectors, if they dont walk away and never go back. i had a brand new rim scraped coz they used a "no mark" bar without a rim protector to mount onto the machine head. some of these mobile tyre fitters are good and they come to you, might be worth paying that little extra for the service. |
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28-08-21, 09:40 PM | #54 | |
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I'm not sure i'd want to be paying £80 for fitting over the cost of the pair of tyres . . . .
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29-08-21, 11:38 PM | #56 |
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30-08-21, 05:55 PM | #57 |
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cheaper than public, and probably with rebate too on the back end.
By online and take it somewhere local for fitting. Most places will do it as a walk in, and about £20 fitted to the bike (per wheel) |
30-08-21, 10:13 PM | #58 |
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Don't want to drag the a*se out of this but I suppose in my case if I bought tyres on line I would then have to take them for fitting to shop in car and then go back home for bike,26 mile round trip, then go to shop on bike for fitting. If I then had to dispose of tyres myself it would be another trip back in car to shop then trip to tip -------- maybe not worth the hassle after all unless there was a fitter nearby, but thanks for comments.
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You can strap the tyres onto the bike, they're not that big! And tyre shops dispose of the old tyres for you, so no need to worry about that.
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31-08-21, 03:43 PM | #60 |
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Not too sure how you would strap 2 tyres on to the bike ! In the past I have ridden with one tyre over my shoulder but I wouldn't fancy doing it now .
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