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    How can every bike repair video be: “we just pop of the tire in a few seconds 🥰”

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    1. blindpilotv1 on

      I have found that doing each tyre (tire) lever independently is tough the last effort to get it on the rim is easier using both lever simultaneously. Don’t be too scared to leverage the rim off of your body rather than having it at arms length.

    2. JackfruitGuilty6189 on

      It’s super easy when you learn the secret. After being stuck popping my spares on the side of the road, I decided to commit to learning.

      Find the valve, go to the opposite side of the wheel and make sure the bead is in the little indentation in the middle of the rim. Work it all the way around and keep pressure on it to stay in the channel. As you work the bead up to the final stress point, keep going back and make sure the bead you already got on the rim stays in the channel. It will slip out as you change pressure on it. When you are on that last few inches, it should be right over the valve. As you apply pressure, it should flip right over the rim (with or without tools). Try hand first, then tool.

      You can do it!

    3. ClientOk4037 on

      For starters, you’re doing it wrong…

      From that position you won’t do nothing.

      Also, do an inch at the time…

    4. CSphotography on

      I had Vittoria’s that were a PITA to get on and off with a lever, replaced them with GP5000 and levers are no longer required.

    5. BirdBruce on

      Practice. If you change a bike tire only as frequently as you need to fix a flat, then it’ll be hard every time. If you do it once a week, you’ll increase your grip strength and learn other ways to make it easier every time you do it.

    6. roughczech on

      For a start where you do the work matters. Put it on a table or a trash can. Spray water on the tire to lubricate the walls so they can slide toward the inside on one side and then you can pull it out more on the other side.

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