I need a new reartire,the Dunlop-D402 Whitewall.
Stealer is asking 285 euro's for it,apart from inner tube..balancing and labor
is 70 euro's an hour.
All in all this tire change is going to cost me nearly 400 euro's which is about
600 dollies I gues.
You Americans just don't know how lucky you are compared to prices here
in Holland and Europe in general.

Here's the stealers site..an official Harley Dutch stealer biz..take a look.
Not in English I'm affraid..sorry.
http://www.oit-harley-davidson.com/index.html

 

Yeah, well, how much is the cheese over there?

And don't worry, the way our dollar is being managed, your 400 Euros will be $1000 shortly.

Tot Zeins

 

ya what he said

 

At this rate, I'll be running recaps soon....

 

I'm in S. Limburg. I just had a rear tire installed on mine - EXPENSIVE! The weak dollar sure is killing us who get paid in dollars but live in the euro world. I'm thinking of starting to do as much of the labor as I can myself. It's just gotten outrageous!

 

Absolutely true,and it's certainly best to do it yourself if possible.
However..I don't have a garage and as far as tires are concerned,they need
to be balanced,for that alone I need the stealer.
But..285 euros for a tire is a very greedy price,but what can one do?

 

And who's to say that the Eurozone countries can't mess up the Euro better than the American politicians F#^K up the Dollar?
The PIGS (Portugal, Ireland< Greece and Spain) use up a lot of cash in "Bail outs" and many of the fringe countries should never have joined the Euro. The Euro was doomed from the start!
Met de hartelijke groeten! (Kind regards)

 

Take a short braek in the UK and have it fitted here. With the exchange rate as it is at the moment you might find it working out better.

 

Oh, I know the Euro has its problems too. I've been following the PIGS. It is a race to the bottom, but we're winning right now.

Tires don't _have_ to be balanced. Especially the rear tire. I've put one on myself with nothing but my hands, some tire tools and a vice or a car jack to break the bead. I don't like to do it, but I've done it when I have had to, like when money was tight. You can also balance the tire/wheel yourself. The factory shop manual shows you how. You put the axle in a vice, put the wheel on the axle, spin it, let it stop. It stops with the most weight at the bottom. Add a little weight to the other side. Repeat until it stops at different places and not at the same one. When times are better, I take the wheel off myself, bring it to an aftermarket shop and have them put the new tire on. Now, a friend of mine bought a tire change machine and I can use it.

There's a bunch of Dutch riders on the board here, in .NL. Maybe one of them can help you out. I'm Dutch (1st and 3rd Generation Dutch-American) and I'd help you out, but I'm a bit far away.

 

Thank you D.R and Scar...You both mean well trying to help.
The idea to go to England is nice but I must take the ferry and look for a
place for the night once there I must find a dealer..get the right tire etc..
Money and time and to many uncertainties along the way.
Changing a reartire without balancing is possible..I know.
But..believe me..one does'nt want to perform such a job at the frontdoor
on the street..not where I live anyway.
I live in Rotterdam where the streets are filled with immigrants.
Crime..madness and killings are everywhere..no good conditions for bike work..ha..ha.

D.R..you're lucky to have the friend with the tiremachine..wish I had one.
Anyway..thx for the kind comments.