Tire Glider

bmxboy10

Anyone tried this? I’ve got some TL tyres to fit and know it’s going to be tight but this looks like an interesting solution.

https://road.cc/content/review/tyre-glider-tyre-lever-290805?amp

seanoconn

This thread covers it

https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/13117788/tyre-glider/p1

bobones

I bought one after reading the hype on here, and I think it is garbage: it's far too difficult to slide along the rim on a tight tyre.

The BBB tyre jack is a far superior tool for mounting tight tubeless tyres IMO.

webboo

bobones said:

I bought one after reading the hype on here, and I think it is garbage: it's far too difficult to slide along the rim on a tight tyre.

The BBB tyre jack is a far superior tool for mounting tight tubeless tyres IMO.

It’s not going to fit in a jersey pocket that well.

joeyhalloran

bobones said:

I bought one after reading the hype on here, and I think it is garbage: it's far too difficult to slide along the rim on a tight tyre.

The BBB tyre jack is a far superior tool for mounting tight tubeless tyres IMO.

I recently had two tubeless tyres refunded under warrant as they weren't 'true'. I'm not sure but i have a suspicion that this tool contributed to it.

daniel_b

Which tool, the BBB or the Tyre glider?

hpaul

Crankbros speedier lever for me. Fits in my pocket with tyre levers in my muck off essentials case with the rest.

bobones

webboo said:

bobones said:

I bought one after reading the hype on here, and I think it is garbage: it's far too difficult to slide along the rim on a tight tyre.

The BBB tyre jack is a far superior tool for mounting tight tubeless tyres IMO.

It’s not going to fit in a jersey pocket that well.

If you’re doing tubeless right, you won’t be needing it on the road.

webboo

Why would I do tubeless.

joeyhalloran

daniel_b said:

Which tool, the BBB or the Tyre glider?

The BBB style one. I find the Tyre glider great but I've now got carbon rims which makes me more hesitant.

webboo

I broke my Tyreglider on my carbon rim. Contacted them and they sent me the beefed up replacement. However I haven’t used it as I can now get the tyre I broke it on, on with out a lever.

pblakeney

^^^I always fit a new tyre 5 times in the comfort of my house before going for a ride to break it in for that reason.

froze

Some people like them, but I don't find much to like though. I bought the red one, and it does glide as they say until you try to put on a very tough tire, then it just stops and won't go any further till mine broke then it went further because I had to take it to the trash!

I got a pair of Schwalbe Marathon Amotion TLE EVO V-Guard tires 700x38c to put on my tubeless rims on my touring bike, but I was going to use tubes instead of going tubeless. I had issue before with Marathon Greenguard tires that were not TLE tires, so I had a feeling I was going to have fun.

Before I go on and someone tries to say I don't know how to put tires on, I've been cycling for 52 years as an adult (18) and another 10 years as a child that did all my own tire changes and flat repairs as even a child, my retired neighbor taught me at age 8. I also know a trick most don't know, which I'll explain. Before I started installing the tires, the tires were put in my car with the windows up to get the tires hot, which worked for the Marathon Greenguards the going cold. The next thing I did was to put talc powder on the tube, and used my regular tools, to no avail; ok, next comes soapy water, but the other side kept coming out. This next part most cyclists don't know about, I had to do this with the Greenguards as well; I put two wide reusable zip ties around the tire and rim about 1/8 of inch apart from each other and cinched them using a pair of pliers to pull the zip ties tight, that was done to keep the bead in the wheel and to keep it from slipping out on the opposite side I was working on, that's when the Soma levers, one Pedros, and the Glide broke, and thought I was going to snap my VAR so I stopped using it; the Greenguards went on after that without damaging the tools, but not the Amotion. So, I ordered the Bead Jack and two Lezyne Power Levers XL, these are the strongest levers made, and they proved it with me. Between using the levers and Bead Jack, along with some muscle the tire got into the rim, of course, I had to do that again for the other wheel.

Here is something I learned from a neighbor when I was kid, he taught me how to fix a flat without having to remove the wheel from the bike! I've been doing it this way all those years. I have shown people with flats on the side of the road and they never knew this could be done. All you do is find the punctured entrance, leaving the wheel on the bike, you take about 1/2 the bead off on one side with the puncture entrance in the middle of the 1/2, next you pull out about a quarter of the tube with the puncture in the middle of the 1/4th, fix the flat with patches as you would normally, while the glue is curing you feel inside the tire to see if you can find anything protruding into the tire, most of the time the thing that did the damage did not stay in the tire, or if it did you can see it from the outside and can pull it out. This method works for about 90% of the flats I've gotten in my lifetime. As you can tell, it's way faster than changing a tube.

So, I know a thing or two about how to put on a tire, no matter how tough they are as long as the tools work, and the new ones I bought worked great.

The Tire Glyder has very limited hand placement space, and it was hurting my hand to try to push that damn thing where the tire got tough to go on, then the glide part that slides broke, luckily it didn't puncture the tube when it broke. I'm sure this tool is great for normal tires, but not the thing to use for very difficult-to-install tires, and I doubt that thing will work to remove my Amotion tires.

The only issue with the Kool Stop Tire Bead Jack is that it's long and won't fit into most standard seat bags. I use the Topeak Aero Wedge large size seat bags, and it barely fits in it bulging out the zipper a bit, so I got creative with a saw, and cut about 1/2 an inch off the handle, then filed it down to get rid of any rough edges, now it fits nicely. But even with that 1/2-inch cut-off, it won't fit in most standard bags. The device is 8" long, I took 1/2 inch off of that.

The Kool Stop Tire Bead Jack works the same way as the VAR does, it slides the tire alongside the rim up and into the rim instead of prying the bead away from the rim and trying to leverage it in. The VAR is made of flexible plastic or nylon, the Tire Bead Jack is a stiff thick piece of plastic.