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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sasquatch Jim on August 14, 2015, 11:48:24 PM
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Time for the yearly inspection to be legally registered. The inspector says change that tire or no sticker.
Naturally it is the rear tire on a Honda 750 shaft drive Aero. This means it is a nasty job just to get the wheel off the machine.
It takes an hour. It is a 170X80X15 tire, I,m not even going to try to break the bead myself. In Washington State the local motorcycle dealer was a friend who would let be use his equipment. Today all I have is my Harley tire irons and a good supply of profanity.
I take the wheel to the auto garage, (the nearest MC shop is 50 miles away) and they are kind enough to press off the beads.
I go home and begin the siege. Getting the first side off is merely strenuous but I succeed. Getting the second side off is showing me how weak I have become at age 71. I have nothing to hold the wheel so I have to hold it with one hand while levering with the other.
If you have never tried this, don't. That's my advice. I takes three levers and one hand must hold the wheel down while manipulating the three tire irons. This means using an armpit and teeth
(I only have 9 of those left) to finally work the tire off the rim.
That's when I notice that the dunlop tire I bought says tubeless. This is an old fashioned spoked rim using a tube type.
It's Friday late and the MC shop is 50 miles away. Forkit! I'm putting it on anyway. I slather the rim and bead with weiner schlider
that's unscented KY jelly, do the same for the tire and begin the fight anew. T'snot at all easy. The wheel fights me all the way.
The first side on, the tube goes in, then I inflate the tube with enough air to almost set the first bead. Then I fight the other side into place. I pressurize enough to partially set the beads to make sure the tube is not folded. Only then do I put in the valve core and inflate the tube until I hear the beads pop into place. I check pressure with three different gauges. The first one I didn't trust, the second one didn't work, and I finally found the good one. Less than twenty PSI. Good. I air it up to 31 PSI and put the valve cap on.
I'm not going to put the wheel back on the bike until tomorrow when I will know if it is holding air. I can do this easily because it is raining outside again.
When I go to wash up I realize that the job may not be complete. I have shed no blood nor broken any bones. This worries me.
Without the obligatory blood sacrifice, I have no assurance that the tire will hold air. O well, tomorrow will tell.
I'm going to shower and change and go for Kava.
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Now a days it is difficult to find a tire that does not say tubeless. In this case I don't think it makes a difference.
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So did you pinch the tube?
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I got two on order and I am going to give it go! Lord help me, Lord!
Got some blue plastic rim protectors, gloves, safety gear, assorted lever and dull persuasion tools and, of course, my Shakespearian Swear Word list that I am going to try this time with the Michelins.
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/shakespeare_insult_kit_zpszalfbjf2.jpg)
The Italian swear words didnt work at all with the Pirellis last time and I didn't want to be arrested using the Australian insult list during the tire install. :wink:
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I dunno . . . seems you did just fine!
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I like the Beslubbering, I've never heard that one before.
When things get so difficult that, "Oh the perversity of inanimate objects", simply won't cover it, I get down one I heard a soldier use when I was in the army. It is, "You Siamese ratchet headed afterbirth of a Mongolian cluster f--- " When used in the heat of the moment, I have never heard a comeback to it from either a person or object. They are probably stunned just trying to digest what it means.
Anyway this morning the tire still had some air in it so with much profanity I put the wheel back on the machine.
Most of my time was wasted looking for tools that I used to have but can no longer find. One of the problems of moving off the continent.
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WWII had a popular phase: "Situation. Normal. All Fowled Up!" or SNAFU.
Bring that one back.
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The version I am accustomed to did not contain the word "fouled" up, but father a much more satisfying adjective.
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So did you pinch the tube?
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No but I tickled it.
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WWII had a popular phase: "Situation. Normal. All Fowled Up!" or SNAFU.
Bring that one back.
:smiley:
It has been replaced by FUBAR. f---k-d up beyond all redemption. It began use in the army in the early sixties.
We didn't think Snafu was quite strong enough.
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I got two on order and I am going to give it go! Lord help me, Lord!
Got some blue plastic rim protectors, gloves, safety gear, assorted lever and dull persuasion tools and, of course, my Shakespearian Swear Word list that I am going to try this time with the Michelins.
The Italian swear words didnt work at all with the Pirellis last time and I didn't want to be arrested using the Australian insult list during the tire install. :wink:
That's the abridged list - it doesn't have "addle-pated"!
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It has been replaced by FUBAR. f---k-d up beyond all redemption. It began use in the army in the early sixties.
We didn't think Snafu was quite strong enough.
One that is common in our forces is SABU Self adjusting Balls Up