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After having experience with a Coats pneumatic machine, the NoMar is really pushing my patience to its limits. I thought it would be a cost effective alternative to spending thousands for a powered changer plus a larger air compressor.
Yeah, I'm not happy with my NoMar but haven't given up completely....thank s for the tip on the Mojo bar, I'll get one and try it again. I didn't have a problem dismounting, mounting is another story. And, yeah, I've watched all the videos, used lube & yellow thing, let the tire sit in warm sunlight, get bead in drop area of rim, etc. After having experience with a Coats pneumatic machine, the NoMar is really pushing my patience to its limits. I thought it would be a cost effective alternative to spending thousands for a powered changer plus a larger air compressor. Oh well, I'll spend a couple more bucks and try the Mojo, Thanks!Art
Its a shame to let an inanimate object get the better of you.
Fixed it for you. Seriously, both the Honda and the Ferrari meet the basic goal of transporting you from point A to somewhere else. They do it with reliability and repeatability, on all sorts of roads. If you want to compare the no-mar to another tire changer it would have to be the BGE. Like the Honda and Ferrari, both are manufactured. And like the no-mar and any other tire changer, the comparison ends there.
Its like buying a Honda Civic and then wonder why it doesn't perform like a Ferrari. I mean a car is a car. They both have 4 wheels and an engine.
The No Mar experience sounds so profound, I will have to get one just for the joy of a worthy defeat.
Well, the tire is on the rim and the rim is back on the bike. And all I had to do was drive 90 miles round trip to my nearest Cycle Gear and pay them $54.00 including tax. Not a viable long term solution, obviously. Well, it is a solution, just not a very good one. Watching that machine spin effortlessly and mount that tire without the installer breaking a sweat sure made me envious. If you think I'm using tire irons on a rim like this? Nope, not happening.
]Dr. John counts his fingers after I try amputating them with N-M bar ...
I marked my 71st birthday changing a 100/90-18 Marathon and a 175/55-17 car tire with my NoMar. The machine has it's limitations- it seems to be designed for wider sport bike tires and rims, so I had to use the tire levers with the 100/90-18 and a bit with the little car tire. The keys are lots of lubricant and work with the tire- keep the opposite side down in the recess of the rim. But scrap a NoMar? Never, I wouldn't even try mounting those little car tires without a machine!
I have a local guy, changes tires and balances for $25. I would never try to change a m/c tire, a gave that crap up before I turned 30.
As my grand-dad (a mechanic/machinist) used to say "any darn fool can get the job done with the right tool".
I emailed Weaver to ask them if my cheap 20 gal. Lowes/Cobalt would run it...nope! Anybody here have any experience with pneumatic tire machine care to differ?
There is a certain amount of truth to that.. When I was an apprentice, I was complaining to the lathe hand that was watching over me about how sloppy the old lathe I was running was. He said, "Any swinging dick can make a good part on a new lathe. It takes some skill to do it on this one. Let me show you some tricks.."
Been whipping tires off and on with mine for almost 20 years. Lube well and no reinforced tires. I do changes for my buddies at a cost of a bottle of Sangiovese per pair. Filled at least ten cases over time. Easily recouping cost. All my Guzzi wheels are a breeze.
Why not pull the bike fully into the wheel vise until it hits the stop then tie it down side to side further back (like the redline drawn in on the pic) on the lift for better triangulation and stability. Having the bike short of the vise's stop with ratchet straps barely wider than the front wheel and pulling it forward is not stable. Its really not securing anything and then lifting the rear of the bike up that old regulator of the universe gravity will make the bike want to roll forward. The straps when pulling forward just help it along. The tire pinched in the vise is only offering a bit of a hold forward/backward. If leaned it would pop right out of the vise. I do not trust these vise's to hold the bike when the wheel is full inserted against the uprights and tightened down let alone just pinching 2 inches of the tire on the bottom. Its far better to have the wheel against a stop then the straps a wide as possible and just barely pulling forward holding it against the stop.
Well, this thread has longer leags -- Gambalunga -- than I would have ever thought. Figured a quick "PM sent" to Motormike from someone near would have ended it several w/g pages back. Can have something mid-grade waiting for you here if you are ever this way. Thanks.I understand what you are saying. I’ve also disobeyed the laws of physics from time to time with predictable results. OTOH, I have used that lift countless times over the last 15 years with zero “OMG” incidents, at least of my own doing. A friend borrowed my GarageMahalo once in Atlanta to do some work on his Norge using the lift. I called midday to see how things were going. His voice was of the sort all parents recognize when a child — of any age — in trouble calls. I drove home immediately.His Norge had just toppled over while up high on the lift! Happily for him, it went off on the opposite side of where he was working; incredibly for him, the only real damage was a broken mirror!How could that be, you might reasonably ask?Well I had a couple of tallish mover’s dish-pack boxes filled with towels and rags almost against the life on the dropped side. The Norge lay there dripping fuel — sayonara to my wealth of rags; sigh — and looking like a big red beached whale. We called in some neighbor reinforcements — one a 98-pound woman with more grit than John Wayne — and righted the beast. Anyway, moving forward to the pic you mention of my Griso on lift to R&R front tire, trust you saw the scissors jack under sump. Out of pic were straps at rear at a better than angle than those front ones.In this particular event, I cannot recall why I spotted it right there, but pretty sure it had to do with the Griso’s side stand, knowing that I was going to lift it with the scissors jack, and that I was going to strap it down at the rear. I routinely use the full bite of the vise on front wheels as you noted.Be all of that as it may, the Griso is back on the road. Let a visiting ST1300 rider take it for a romp yesterday. He was dutifully impressed; or just had the sense and civility to so emote. Best,Bill