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So it's time for some new tires on your motorcycle. What do you do? Where do you go? How much are you spending? In my opinion it's a fairly easy job and you only really need a few hand tools and either a local shop that can do the mountain balance or better yet a cycle gear. Look that up online cyclegear. com and see where your closest location might be. Great place to buy the tire as well as get it mounted and balanced. I do realize that depending what you ride will vary the difficulty on how hard it is to pull your tires off. But This also would be true for the BMW R1200. Matter of fact on these bikes the rear tire comes off very similar to a car tire. You unbolt it and you pull it off. So I'm going to grab my 11 year old daughter to help me with this to show you just how easy it is. Then I'll be grabbing the tire and rim and getting down to my local cycle gear where they're going to go ahead and mount and balance it for me. Alright kid how old are you? 11. What are you going to do? Something. You can take that tire off? Yeah. well Is that all of them? Yeah. See if you can pull that tire off. Keep it up and down so it won't fall. There you go, lean on the toolbox. What do you think? Was that hard? No. Should you change your own tire? No. Yeah. What? Should other people change their own tire? Yeah. Because it was pretty easy, h Yeah. Now take it to cycle gear. All right, let's do it. All right, tire is back from cycle gear. Let's get it on the bike. So when we took off the tire, it fit right out between the exhaust and this rear fender piece, but I went to dry fit it, test fit it, and this fender piece was in the way. The reason why I haven'taken this off before is I was running an aftermarket exhaust. I have other videos on that exhaust. I now went back to the factory, and the factory is bigger than the aftermarket exhaust. So you will want to take this off probably for the install because the tire is so much newer and has so much more tread. I also There is enough still on here from before, so I'm not going to put any more on. I don't want a whole lot, just a little. So for this next part, I'm going to have you use this gun to make it go a little quicker. You want to get it on there, and we're going to just, once it stops and makes noise, you can let go of the trigger. Okay, good. And what we're going to do is we're going to do this in a star pattern. So from here, we're going to go then to here. So do this one next. Yep, and then over there, right here. Right here. So now, I want you to try to tighten this until it clicks. So you're going to put it right here. You're going to push here, and then you're going to pull this up. So switch sides with me. Good. All right. Go to this one. All right, up. It's hard. Good. All right, up. Good. Good. All right, up. Good. Up. Good. Up. Nice. Good job, buddy. Well, I hope this video inspires you to replace your tires the next time they need done. I'll drop some links down below on the tools I used to get this done. Also, big shout out to Cycle Gear for always taking care of my motorcycle needs and for being right here in my local community. I'm curious, do your own tires or maybe you're thinking about it? Feel free. Let me know in the comments down below. And that's a wrap. That's all I got on a rear tire. I'll do a front tire on another video, but take care. Have a good one. See ya. All right. The tire is back from Cycle Gear. Let's get it on the bike.
