June 14, 20251 yr Walk into any tire shop, motorcycle shop, semi truck tire shop, race shop at any track. They all use some sort of mounting lube. LOL.
June 14, 20251 yr 9 hours ago, lineaway said: Walk into any tire shop, motorcycle shop, semi truck tire shop, race shop at any track. They all use some sort of mounting lube. LOL. Tubeless tires yes, the only place a tube tire bead runs tight is at the rim lock plus cars and trucks have a thing called a safety rim but his chrome steel rims lack that feature it will mount with low pressure.
June 14, 20251 yr Tubed Trials tyres usually go on and off so easily using hand levers I don't usually bother with lube but if I was using a machine to fit one, I would use lube to make the sliding part move nicely. I do use lube when changing knobby tyres with hand levers because they have such a stiff construction.
June 14, 20251 yr Author Thanks for your input Feetupfun! hope all's well with you, sir!.. i had someone else put the new tires on that TY250 you helped me so much with a few years back ..but i'm going to do this Honda one myself...just need to get more confident with these things..won't hurt to have some windex/soap at the ready anyway...just waiting on a few parts and i'll report back!
June 15, 20251 yr https://www.redlinestands.com/catalog/shop-equipment-c-327/tire-change-equipment-c-327_331/tire-changers-c-327_331_248/discontinued-coats-220-manual-tire-changer-p-1865 I had this manual changer for over thirty years. Lubed every tire I ever installed. All trials tires I could usually mount just by hand. Street tires were just as easy. Some of those rock hard knobbies were still the worse. Wish I still had it, but I quit working on bikes for the most part. Just my own. With all my grand kids growing up, it's still would of been usefull! .
June 16, 20251 yr On 6/15/2025 at 8:42 AM, johnnyjazz said: Thanks for your input Feetupfun! hope all's well with you, sir!.. i had someone else put the new tires on that TY250 you helped me so much with a few years back ..but i'm going to do this Honda one myself...just need to get more confident with these things..won't hurt to have some windex/soap at the ready anyway...just waiting on a few parts and i'll report back! other options include WD40 and dishwashing liquid solution
June 16, 20251 yr I use hand sanitizer to put handlebar grips on lol maybe that will work for whatever the heck it is you are trying to make slippery.
June 16, 20251 yr OMG people his tube type steel rim isn't even a safety rim, you know those tools called a bead break? <- he does not need one because the tire will never bead. You know the big Bang that a tire makes at the tire shop when the tire mounts the bead <- his tube tire on plain ol steel rim will never make that noise unless he has a blowout, because there is no bead to seat 😐 stop making it more complicated, the Only way that tire won't slide right into place Dry is if he pinches the tube between the tire and rim when he is mounting it. Edited June 16, 20251 yr by lemur
October 7, 2025Oct 7 Author Apologies for not closing this out sooner! Thank you all for help, it was pretty easy as you said it would be! definitely helped me grow in confidence as its another thing Ive now learnt to do. The hardest part was trying to get the valve stem back through the hole! Appreciate you all.... now to the anti judder clutch kit.... lol
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