Well tire irons are faster than that method. Also I would like to see him use this method on a modern width rim and tire. Some of the modern tires have very stiff sidewalls.
If you wrap the irons you will not scratch the paint.
Agreed. I was just impressed with the innovative approach. I also like the guy on YouTube that changed his with windex and zip ties. Granted, they are soft race tires...
http://youtu.be/S6WPzRRJLpA (http://youtu.be/S6WPzRRJLpA)
Quote from: memper on April 10, 2013, 07:28:29 PM
Agreed. I was just impressed with the innovative approach. I also like the guy on YouTube that changed his with windex and zip ties. Granted, they are soft race tires...
http://youtu.be/S6WPzRRJLpA (http://youtu.be/S6WPzRRJLpA)
I'm lucky cause my mechanic lets me use his tyre machine, as he got sick of swapping tyres over on rims for me for the Monster (I have spare rims which have slicks on them, my road wheels get swapped for either road tyres or wets).
Wets only need the barest of lube and you can just punch them on straight down, no dramas.
Pilot Pures can be done without any tyre irons, just holding it in something to hold the wheel nice and steady, but need a bit more lube and a bit more force to punch the 2nd bead over the rim (first is easy). Road2s and Road3s need a bit more effort again but I reckon they'd be doable. Stiffer than that and you'd struggle. Fitting the tyres to my car took one fat bastard holding down one side to get the second bead to slip over using an actual tyre machine (cause it's designed for motorbikes, no arm that holds the bead down away from where you're trying to fit it).
I did supercorsa treaded tyres on Triumph rims at an endurance race (I was front tyre/refuel/tyres onto rims guy) for 8 hours and you could do them with a shade of lube and some force, so I can see why the ziptie method would work. But if the rim was held in a rim clamp, I reckon a shade of some form of lubricant and you could just punch them down and over.
The plastic bag method might be what I use on some of the small dirtbike rims I've done, though. Beats possibly pinching the tube.