Remove a Flat Tire from a Bicycle Wheel

Video Transcript

"So now the next step is going to be pushing all around the bead of the tire to unset it. The tire tries to naturally hook to the bead of the rim you can see that there is a annotation in there and you can also see the outline of the tire. This specific tire is designed to ride 2 wheels if you want to it got a very stiff strong bead that really welds itself pretty well. So I'm just moving around on the other side trying to unseat the bead. I'm doing a pretty good job. Some folks who are real strong can simply take the tire off by picking up one side of the bead and pushing around and as you can see I actually have unseated the beat there and I can continue with pushing in and sort of tare the tire off the rim. Most people don't have that skill or ability so I'm going to show you how to safely remove your tire using a tire lever. These are sold in package of 3 there is a lot of different brands and that make tire levers in the market. My favorite one's are these wide plastic levers a little bit of a spoon to them they are by a company called Pedro's they slide really well and they rarely pinch your tube which is one of the hassles that can occurs. You can see the valve stream is over here I'm starting opposite of the valve stream with my removal cause that is the most slack usually in the tire and then I just simple push my tire lever around and there we go. We are off so now I'm going to pull out a tube, set it aside, then I'm doing the same thing I was doing earlier just pulling the bead off the rim so I'm pushing up and then over and simple just removing my tire from my wheel."