tire changing

For those of you who change your own tires and have an off-the-shelf stand for the purpose that uses a center post for leverage, this is a shout-out for a piece of gear that might save you a bunch of effort and make your equipment go further. I am not sponsored and spent my own money on...

My wife and I are fairly new to motorcycling. After having gone through a few different ones, we settled on an all BMW stable with an '18 R1200RT, an '18 G310GS, and a '19 F750GS. I intend to change tires myself as is the case with most of the routine maintenance of our bikes. As we are about...

I recently traded my '09 RT for a 2015 GS and found Anakee Wild's on sale even though the original Anakee 3's only have 3500 miles on them. I've changed pickup and bicycle tires, but this will be my first time to change motorcycle tires and will need to buy some new tools (a guy needs an excuse...

I have done 8 tires so far this year, out on the concrete, 2 on the stumper, 4 on the WheelHorse and 2 on the front of the farm tractor. All done by hand although I have the "ingredients" to make it go better. One of the worse parts, as we all know, is breaking the bead from a long seated tire...