Zip Tie Tyre Change and an MOT
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Time for a quick tyre change on the rear and then off to an MOT. Easy enough but it all goes horribly wrong when I try to take off the old tyre.
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Love your videos I’m 26 and have just got my first big bike which is a z900 your sense of humour tickles me
Shame the guys at Completely are temporarily in suspended animation. Popped into see Colin and the rest of the former Thunder Road crew at Staverton just 2 weeks before their announcement... Mentioned to them that I ended up getting a MotoXL bead breaker and tyre changer and the look on Colin's face!!! I can only imagine what would have gone through his mind if I told me that I followed your video and did the zip tie method! But hey, if it works, it works. All balanced and wheel in the correct rotation.
I've been doing all my tyre changes for a number of years now. Changing tyres is easier if it's a warm day, or if you warm the tyres up before doing the work. I've got a simple bead breaker machine, so that's never a problem. Zip ties work really well - the more you change tyres, the easier it gets, but don't try do the work when the tyres are really cold....they're a b*stard to work with when cold !!
Gr8 vid, I enjoy your z900 related vids. I once changed my tires the same way you did with zip ties, many yrs ago. I used a big c clamp to break the beads, simple, but very time consuming. Putting the tires on, I scratched my rims a little. After that I rather paid others to do it...😂😂😂 Ride safe, god bless u.
I thought the px price they offered you was very fair...
Apart from tyres it's going to be a loooong time till you get any MOT advisories on the Kawa. I bought a 2001 Honda CBR600F4i two years ago, slung on a new pair of Battlax T32s and it has sailed through two MOTs without any advisories - even with the original rubber brake hoses.
Enjoyed your videos and am catching up on your past content - thanks!
The guy told me that many bikes fail because they turn up with small, illegal number plates!! But I think you're right, it should sail through for a few more years. Glad you like the channel.
Great video do you do all your own servicing? how do you hold the spacers in the rims I was having a nightmare putting the wheel back in ?
I don't service as i like to get the stamps in the book. As for the rear wheel, yeah it's a nightmare! Prop the wheel up at the correct height and plenty of grease to 'stick' the shims in place. Still not easy.