How To Change A Tire

I change and balance my own tires also, started with sport bikes and buying tires online, only to hit various shops and they wouldn’t mount them unless you bought tires from them citing nonsensical liability, or they just wanted too much for the service (especially when your changing out tires every 2500-3000 miles!) So I made a bead breaker and a balancer and never looked back. Now I do my own car, van and truck tires as the cost has gotten ridiculous, not to mention I get tired of having to remind the newbie tire specialist that I want adhesive backed weights on the rims, or if they have the old fashioned hammer on weights to put them on the inside. Nothing worse than nice alloy rims with gouges all along the rim edge! Also, most shops don’t clean the rim bead area either or take the time to match up light and heavy marks, or maybe resort to popping the fresh mounted tires beads again and rotating the tire to try and get a balance using as little weights as possible. All things I learned doing m/c tires. I also use cut up milk cartons as rim edge protectors when leveraging the tire on. And, the Harvor Freight bubble balancer works just fine. Just have to have it setup solidly, take your time, and check your work multiple times to ensure you get repeatability.