Motorcycle Tire Maintenance Tips

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Drew Neilon from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in Little River. I work at Beach Customs and today I'm going to show you how to change and maintain a tire for Expert Village. Alright it's important to maintain your tire and keep them balanced and at the right p.s.i. This bike right here, this tire right here was probably inflated more than it needed causing it to have this hump on the top of the tire. It needs to be at 40 p.s.i. for the proper inflation of this tire. If you were to run over a nail, it's against the law for a shop to plug it, so we have to change the tire completely out. If you were to get stranded on the side of the road, then you need to plug a tire, that's ok to do just for a couple miles, but you only have two tires, so it's important to have the right amount of air in your tire and make sure none of them have any plugs or anything in the tire. It's also important to have them balanced correctly because some rims might have a bounce in them or maybe the vibrations of the rim might be off. So after we change the tire we need to balance them too. There's a problem with dry rotten. If a tire's been on a bike too long, sitting in the shed or in the garage for too long, you might have dry rotting, which you can see on the side of the tire itself. It's a good idea to go ahead and change that tire. Once again, you only have two tires so you want to make sure your tires aren't dry rotted, over-inflated or under-inflated, you want the right p.s.i., which again it runs in the type of tire you have and the amount of air pressure needed. For instance, this tire needs 40 p.s.i., so we're going to re-flate it again at 40 p.s.i. with the new tire on it."