Track side tyre change tips and tricks

[GregMember]

Loads of chat lately about tyres and changing them. One thing to start this thread of that I want to share is lube. Yup your tyre needs to be lubed around the bead for two reasons. First it makes it easier to fit and second you will require far less air pressure to get to to bead when pumping it up.
At home I use truck wash or hand wash when fitting tyres but track side I hadn’t been carrying anything. On last years Cape ride Jacko got a flat and we couldn’t get it to bead. We rode back carrying the wheel to a servo and used their compressor. It still took 90psi to get it to bead. Hindsight being 20/ 20 vision we should have just ridden it to the next town and used their compressor if hadn’t seated itself. It would have been hot and maybe had seated easier. Still it highlighted I needed to carrying something with me but what and how with making a mess.
So a few months ago while staying away for work I saw the shampoos and bath wash tubes/ capsules that the hotels restock everyday and thought they would be perfect in my bumbag.

When doing the King’s tyres the Thursday night before the nav ride I used one of the borrowed hotel shampoos and bang worked perfectly. One tube two tyres and the rear 606 beaded at around 22psi when measured.

TB

[Mick DMember]

great tip there TB.I might have to grab one or two in my travels. I haven’t bothered taking any notice of the shampoo bottles in motels in the past for obvious reasons :blush:

[Ron BirrellMember]

Hey TB, I carry a small piece of rag soaked in truck wash that I’ve put in a resealable sandwich bag. Use it as many times as you like. Just rue soak it when it starts to dry out. I put a new tyre on the son’s bike last weekend and it beaded up around 15 psi.

Buzz

[scott bockingMember]

Buzz wrote:

Hey TB, I carry a small piece of rag soaked in truck wash that I’ve put in a resealable sandwich bag. Use it as many times as you like. Just rue soak it when it starts to dry out. I put a new tyre on the son’s bike last weekend and it beaded up around 15 psi.

Buzz

Very clever Buzz!!

STM

[Nick JacksonMember]

Buzz wrote:

Hey TB, I carry a small piece of rag soaked in truck wash that I’ve put in a resealable sandwich bag. Use it as many times as you like. Just rue soak it when it starts to dry out. I put a new tyre on the son’s bike last weekend and it beaded up around 15 psi.

Buzz

That’s bloody awesome Buzz !!! Tip of the decade I reckon !!
Doing that ASAP !!

Cheers

Nick

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