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Originally Posted by
Simon
Has anyone used one of these yet?
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My wife bought me a pair a couple of years ago - she was hugely disappointed when she saw what she got for her money.
I looked at them and though, you get what you pay for, and was looking forward to trying them out.
To be honest, I have a pair of short tyre irons that do the same job and cost a few ��. It's technique not fancy tools that do the job.
OK, so I've ONLY used these on a Tenere but the little lip in the bead breakers is just too short to push the bead over the inner lip of the wheel (and this is with TKC's, not stiffer road rubber). The handles don't fit in the hand very well and are pretty uncomfortable after a few minutes.
On the plus side, they are lovely pieces of engineering and well finished.
On different wheel these will work very well.
I'd say buy an old wheel off eBay and practice practice practice...