Maybe you have searched online
for some extra chrome to make your ride a beauty. It is quite common to
run across advertisements for
discount motorcycle tires.
Usually, these advertisements give you a deal of a
lifetime. If you are an unlucky person like me, you found this ad a few
weeks after you had new tires put on at your local shop. When I
realized that the “good deal” from the shop was at least
double of what I would pay for the better deal online I got really mad.
After thinking of a few nasty words I swore to
myself that I would never let the fat bald guys at the local shop con
me into a bad deal again.
Then I got thinking. There are some things you should think about too before you purchase discount motorcycle tires.
First off, do you know how to change and fit a
bike tire? If you don’t know how to do this, you could but
yourself in a totally embarrassing circumstance. Imagine purchasing
your discount tires and then having to go to your shop to have them
mounted. It is likely that your service charge will be more because you
brought in your own tires.
If you know how to fit motorcycle tires yourself, then go right ahead and make that purchase!
For those that don’t know how to mount and
fit motorcycle tires, it really isn’t that difficult to learn how
to do it. The hardest part is getting the tire off the rim. After
riding around, the bead, or seal, is well established. However, you can
purchase a bead breaking set for less than $200.
It isn’t that hard to find suggestions and
instructions on how to fit a tire. You can easily find other methods of
breaking the bead without even buying a breaking set, if you really
wanted to. But be careful, because some of them can be harmful.
If you do plan on fitting your discount tires
yourself, be careful with the brake discs. If you damage them, they are
expensive.
Once you have the bead broken, with a bit of
strength (pushing and tugging) you should be able to mount your tires.
Just make sure the bead is properly positioned. You will probably also
need to get your tires balanced.
Just remember that the idea with purchasing
discount motorcycle tires is to save money. Be careful that you know
how to fit your tire correctly before you test run anything on your
bike.