Manky Monkey Motors

After a recent mishap I realised that my rear tyre was well past it's best. With quotes for a new one ranging from £125 to £140 I managed to find one on fleabay for £79 including postage. Ordered it late Saturday evening and it arrived early on Tuesday morning :o
Having problems with my wrist at the moment so I may just pull the wheel out and have someone else fit the tyre. I remember having a bit of a struggle with the Harley rear.
(Do you think they noticed the product placement Andy  ;))

Very subtle Dave  ;)
You didn't make Heather the Post Lady lug that up your drive did you?!

its alright if he did.   The exercise will do her good. ;D ;D

I'm gonna tell her you said that Bob!

Go on then you tell her I'm not scared! (I think,Mebbe).  Snitch!

i take it you put that on the trikes front wheel i been looking into a bike rear tyre on front but my tyre man says the rotation ought to be running backwards ? is that what you do quoted 90 pounds for a 140x70x17 fitted thought was reasonable for a mitchellin

but from memory you have a bike too ? so maybe nothing to do with trike ... but never the less any views on bike rear tyre on front of trike with rotation reversed

I've had a good motorcycle tyre on the front of my trike, and an economical 'don't care as long as it's black and round'.  Never noticed any difference!

It's for a bike. I have no experience of fitting a bike rear tyre on the front of a trike, so have not given the rotation issue any thought. For my trike I fitted a 19" car tyre.I believe rear tyres with a directional bias, not only have bias as far as loading goes, (hence the idea of reversing the direction if used on the front), but also in the way they direct water away from the contact patch. It is possible that running the tyre in the wrong direction, could actually cause water to be forced under the contact patch.
Bridgestone do 17" fronts up to 150/80 so might be worth having a look around to see what others do.

It's actualy an MOT fail,Having a tyre fitted with directional arrows facing the wrong way.

Avon Roadrider AM26 is available in 140/80x17 which fits front or rear at about £100.

Had a few problems getting the old tyre off the rim today. Just could not break the bead  >:( Tried for over a hour. Ended up having to knock up a lever type bead breaker out of old square section tube. Then it was no problem at all.  :D Might make a proper one for future use.

I made one up of a similar style that "levers" against the lower steel tube cross-rail of my work bench. Portable, and works a treat Dave!!  Morrag

Fitting the tyre was not too much of a problem, but refitting the wheel turned into one of those, 5 minute jobs that take ages.
Due to not having a bike lift, the back of the bike was a fair way off the ground, with car axle stands each side,under the frame. This meant that the wheel, assembled with brake and drive unit had to be lifted up into the axle slots while keeping the drive shaft aligned, the brake rod out of the way and the wheel alignment spacer in it's place. All hampered by the saddlebags (that take forever to remove so I hadn't).
After a lot of cussing, it was loosely bolted in place, but while taking a breather before torqueing it all up, I noticed a nice clean shiny tube in the corner of the garage. Things in the corners or my garage, are rarely clean and never shiny and it took a while for my brain to go from 'I wonder where that came from,' to 'D'oh! I know exactly where that came from #####'
Yep you guessed it. The internal spacer  >:( Start again. ::)

yup, and as old newby says, it fecks water dispersal up,
fit as per rotation arrows...
 as for bead splitting when tyre changing,if a splitter isnt handy, i use a trench shovel,
never fails,
lay the wheel on the ground , put it as near to the rim as poss, and jump on it,
straight off.....

Bloody Hell Digger, that sounds straight out of " The Genghis Khan Book of Tyre Fitting"......................... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

lol, i found out that trick years ago, there was around 5 of us, struggling with a cb900 rear that had welded to a wheel,
no one could shift it , up walks my mates 8stone girlfriend, and asked if i had a trench spade, i did,
she went up to the tyre and jumped on the spade, tyre popped straight off, we all just stopped talking and looked,  :o
apparently she had seen her grandad do it with car tyres ;D