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Why are my tyres so hard to change?

[Deleted User] · 2020-06-10 19:51:46

I've tried three different brands of tyres and yet it's all but impossible to swap out a tyre on my road bike. It's like the wheel is too big! I've tried using several levers, heating the tyre with a hair dryer or leaving it in the sun for a while but it's impossible. It takes two people and lots of swearing to get it done…

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#52 13-06-2020 10:46pm

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I'm still using spoons my dad used before me as levers :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_zzCLLRvE

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#53 13-06-2020 10:48pm

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Deleted User wrote: »

I'm still using spoons my dad used before me as levers :pac:

Ah finally someone on my level I can help.

Forks are better because they fit in between the spokes and hold the first insertion in place leaving you hands free to get your second fork in

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#54 13-06-2020 11:00pm

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Truthvader wrote: »

Ah finally someone on my level I can help.

Forks are better because they fit in between the spokes and hold the first insertion in place leaving you hands free to get your second fork in

There actually used to be a fork!!!!!!

Long gone now and one from the drawer in the kitchen today wouldn't be the same. Not as malleable as the 40 odd year old ones we used to have, yeah our forks as kids were ****e for eating with but great as tyre levers

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