Originally Posted by
njloco
This past Saturday I went up to a friend in North Jersey to change my tires, he has a slightly modified Harbor frt tire changer. All I can say is, I'm getting one ! It was pretty easy and the first time he used it to change motorcycle tires. We had to use a special tool called a Mojo something or other on the rear tire, sorry I can't remember the exact name ( I'm old, I'm allowed and expected to forget ), but it was really easy. He also had this stuff to lube the tire to make it easier to install the the new tire. We used this slippery stuff to remove the front tire and it literally popped off without using any removal tools at all ! It took longer to get the front tire to take air than to remove it off the front rim.
Really easy job, I will be doing my own tires on all of my bikes from now on.
P.S. The above was done on my 2013 Triumph explorer 1200.