Tyre levers (yay...)

Will Snow

After breaking yet another set of tyre levers, can anyone, ever, tell if theyve ever used any decent tyre levers that dont shatter in your hands and just in general annoy the hell out of you???

hamboman

A couple of issues ago MBR or WMB (cant remember which) rated some that were rubber on the outside with a metal bit inside. can't remember the name either! But they are out there somewhere.

CitizenLee

I craft my own from the finger bones of dog walkers I catch letting their mutts empty their bowels on all my local routes :twisted:

Nah, never struggled with the cheapo Halfords ones myself but perhaps some of these might be just the ticket for you...

http://www.unicycle.uk.com/shop/shopdis ... alogid=866

(available from most places... they were jsut one of the 1st Google hits for "reinforced tyre levers")

fizik

I thought my park ones were strong until they started snapping.

trail jacker

i got some mitchelin ones from Decathlon for £4, nice and cheap!. made of a tough but slightly flexy yellow plastic, been great. good price too. no breaks yet.....!

Mr bump

i got some metal park tools ones from CRC bulky but they dont bend!

banana_man

Has anyone used one of those Crank Bros. speed levers... you may have better luck with one of those, my mate has one that he uses on his mtb but not sure how successful they'll be on narrow 700c wheels.

nicklouse

i have a speed lever on the sofa next to me.

looked like a good idea when i bought iy X years ago. used it once.

The Big Cheese

Seriously guys, what feckin' tyres are taking off - your cars!!!

I've had my Park tools for years now and I have taken beasts off with them - seriously they are pretty damn burly!

supersonic

Bah, yer big girls blouses, use yer thumbs!

;-)

Will Snow

cheeres guys, guess i am getting use to getting free ones with magazines... Used to take em off with my thumbs, till i took a chunk out of my thumb (nice). So im looking a set of steel reinforced??? Sounds good to me!!!

baccaman21

I think it depends on the tyres... I had some Continentals that were a pain in the (palms) to get on and off... but i've recently switched to Panaracers and they'e easy... so easy in fact a bit of Fairy liquid on the rim and they slip one easy as pie... getting em off is as simple too... but I need 1 lever to just get the bead out then it's plain sailing.

I've snapped plenty levers with the Conti's mind...

I guess it's the tyres...?

supersonic

Rims as well. I can take my Conti Verts off my 317 rims without any levers!

baccaman21

grarrrgh! you da man! supersonic!

Sheffield Strength...!

lukesaddy

go back to old school, use SPOONS, lol they last for ages

Will Snow

spoons??? err, which end, the handle end or the spooney end??? plus, my mum would kill me...

banana_man

Hehe, the spoony end... make sure it's you're best silverware... anything less with just bend.

HJ1976

Well spoons will go well with the knives that some people seem to use as skrewdrivers etc!
I had a teaspoon in my old camp bed to help me put it together!

Will Snow

...what the hell are we all on about??? ha ha ha... right, so im looking at reinforced steeleys or the business end of a spoon, good choices there. By the same note would a butter knife work???

oh you sorry, sorry bodgers...

buddha

After breaking 6 levers I now use Soma levers, with no problems.

Will Snow

i can spend two hundred quid on a pair of forks, but a fiver on tyre levers hurts so much...

ddoogie

Try these: link

Mahoosive things! I can't imagine a tyre tight enough to stay on the rim whilst using these!

Tony06

try putting fairy liquid on the rim and bead!!! i dont need tyre levers anymore!!!!!!!!!!

dunker

soma levers here, only needed them once so far and they did'nt let me down

jayson

I use a set of spoons with nice strong rounded edges and i can absolutely promise anyone here they're leagues ahead of any 'proper' tire levers.

Ive had them since i was about 14 and im 33 now and they've never given me any hassles.

I spit on ur plastic tire levers PAH

Anonymous

Sorry, I just don't get something here.

I have a continental vertical on a mavic D321 rim. There's no way in hell that that would EVER, EVER come off without the use of a tyre lever. Bare hands (or even bear hands) my arse. I've bent steel bars trying to get the bloody thing on/off.
Fairy liquid doesn't work, and besides, who the hell carries fairy liquid with them when they puncture on a mountain, when you need to get your tyre off? Like that's useful advice?

Big n Daft

supersonic wrote:

Bah, yer big girls blouses, use yer thumbs!

;-)

Thumbs????

Pfft,

Real men bite em off.

mikeitup

after breaking the levers on my topeak Hummer tool and some plastic ones from wilco I now use Soma steel core levers. They are great!!

John Stevenson

Soma Fabrications metal core levers are what you want:

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/ ... vers-15503

Some tyre/rim combinations are tighter than others. Not a mountain bike problem, but on the road Campagnolo rims are notoriously slightly over-sized.

Will Snow

that reminds me of that letter a couple of mbuks ago, when that tramp ate that tyre. Scary stuff... Spose if you get punctures on the mountain (and you shouldnt, put some air in your tyres and use slime, or similar!!!) then you could try UST's. ie Joes no flats, or whatever. Anyone here tried it???