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TYRE REMOVAL
1. Let the air out of the tyre by depressing the valve core (the little
pin in the centre of the valve stem opening).
2. Separate the tyre bead from the sides of the rim by pressing with
your thumbs. Work your way around the tyre on both sides to be sure
that the beads of the tyre are not sticking to the rim. (Figure A)
3. Stand he wheel up on the firm surface with the valve stem on the
bottom and grasp the upper part of the tyre with both hands. Try to roll
the tyre off the far side of the rim.
4. With the wheel standing as in Figure B, use bicycle tyre tools for spoon
handles with rounded ends (at least two-preferably three) to lift the bead
on one side of the tyre off the rim. Be careful not to pinch the inner tube
between the tyre tools and the tyre bead or rim. Once you have got the
bead off for about one fourth of the circumference of the tyre using the
tools, the rest can usually be pulled off by hand.
5. With the bead on one side of the tyre completely off the rim, you can
now pull the inner tube out from between the tyre and rim everywhere
except in they are of the valve stem.
6. It should now be easy to pull the tyre the rest of the way off the rim.
Start at the side of the wheel opposite the valve stem and simply lift the
bead of the tyre up over the side of the rim and pull it off.
FIGURE A
Press wih thumbs
to separete tyre bead.
Continue around entire
rim until the bead is
completely separated.
FIGURE B
Lift bead with
spoons or tyre tools.
FIGURE C
replace tyre
onto rim.
FIGURE D
Rims strip protects
inner tube from
spoke ends.
FIGURE F
Use thumb to press
valve stem through
hole in rim.Make
certain valve stem
is straight.
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