I made a homemade bead breaker using some two-by-fours bolted to a wall stud in the garage. I used the long board as a big lever and the small board pressed down on the tire to push it off the rim. My bead breaker was a long two-by-four bolted to a stud in the garage wall with a short piece of free-swinging two-by-four hanging from it.
My first setup consisted of a home-built table made of two-by-fours and a sheet of particleboard with a threaded rod through the center that I used to clamp down the tire so I could work on it. But I’ve used a few different methods of accomplishing the pre-change process of breaking the bead. Over the 20 years I’ve been changing my motorcycle tires, the basic process of getting the old tire off and the new tire on the wheel has been about the same, using my favored set of tire irons, rim protectors and a jug of tire lubricant. Breaking the bead: First step to changing your motorcycle tire For more the more detailed review, read on.
Here’s the short version of the review: This tool is simple, quick and easy to use and effective. That lead me to the BeadBuster tool and I used it for the first time this past weekend. Recently, circumstances forced me to look for a new method for getting that part of the job done. I’ve been changing my own motorcycle tires for more than 20 years and one of the hard parts of the job has always been breaking the bead on the old tire - separating the tubeless tire from the wheel rim, for those who may not be familiar with the terminology.