in the middle of nowhere

[robbie c]

Years ago when I had a bit less money I allways changed my tubeless tyres myself, soooo
as I do a lot more distance and remote riding I thought, what if I'm in the middle of the back of beyond and something damages the side wall of the tyre so that I'm able to use the puncture repair kit to fix the tyre ?
now luckily I'd be carrying an inner tube for just an emergency, but how do I break the beading and what are the best tyre levers for lightness and strength ?

thanks

Rob

 

[Dahoum]

Robbie, the search button is very useful

On a simple search of the word 'bead' i came up with THIS

without his bead breaker you'll need other methods - but there have been plenty of threads dealing with this in the past.

 

[Mzokk]

Many years ago when tubeless crossply's appeared, you could break the bead by putting the bike on the centre stand tilting it and getting a mate to slide the wheel under the stand, while you gently let it down with the centre stand as close to the wheel as possible on the tire without touching the the wheel with the centre stand. Doubt that trick would work with a tourance though.

 

[Mutley]

Robbie, the search button is very useful

On a simple search of the word 'bead' i came up with THIS

 

[Rob Farmer]

I've got one of the excellent tire pluggers http://www.moplant.co.uk/tyres_plugger.php these work really well a do not take up much room. A small compressor goes in the top box with it. Just in case things are a too serious for the tyre plugger to work I've got one of Gary Holloways small bead breakers http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74401&highlight=bead+breaker. I carry it with me when I go any distance.

Not that I'm paranoid about getting punctures of course I had a puncture in France years ago, in the middle of nowhere, it took two days to sort out and could have been avoided with a few simple bits of kit.

 

[Sergeant Pluck]

+ 1 on the tyre plugger kit.

I've got one of the kits and it's dead easy to use, and the repair I did with it lasted til the tyre was knackered and had to be replaced.

 

[bustupbiker]

Ditto with Gary's breaker great bit of kit.