two tire spoons, a bottle brush, and some warm water with Dawn dish soap in it is much cheaper. You could even spring for the bead breaker, harbor freight manual wheel balancer, and wheel weights for what you paid (maybe a shade more). Then you have all the tools, and can do all the tubes, or tubeless tires you ever need to yourself.

 

haha with the money i spent i could have purchased all that stuff.

 

Tire Spoons: $4.99/ea X2 =9.98
http://www.harborfreight.com/catalog...&q=tire+spoons

Bottle Brush: $1.00
Dawn Detergent: $1.00

Bead Breaker: $24.99
http://www.harborfreight.com/automot...ker-98875.html

Wheel balancer: $49.99 (went up since I bought mine)
http://www.harborfreight.com/motorcy...and-98488.html

Wheel weights: about $20 for a kit

The only other things you need is a set of pliers, a small hammer, a flathead screwdriver, and a bucket with water in it.

Total: $96.98 plus tax and shipping. Roughly $100 and you'll have enough stuff to do at least 10-15 wheels. If you go with 12 wheels, that is $8.33/per wheel, not counting the inner tubes. Who needs those when you have patch kits (or plug kits for tubeless tires), though?

The first one you do will be a bitch. By the third one you'll have it down to 5 minutes.

 

At there labor @ hr ($75-$100 @ hr),,, what did U expect....

Yeppers,, our local indy does a tire/tube/balance for $25 when U walk in with it off the bike..

live and learn..

 

Could have done it yourself for the price of a tube and your time.

 

Do you have a job, Do you do work for free, Why should the dealer do this for free??

Pass the cheese to go with this guys whinne

 

why do you guys always bitch about dealer prises they have overhead and people to pay of courtse a small shop can beat there price simply because of overhead,

 

Took my front wheel into an indy yesterday, he charged me $25 to change the tire, and was going to dispose of the old tire for free. Can't beat them, the attitudes are better, and you seldom have to wait very long.

 

I'm sorry but I just don't understand having anyone do service work without asking what the cost is.

So if you want to know who is at fault here look in a mirror.

Lesson learned. Ask the vendor his price first not be surprised after. Doh!!!

I'm with - rentalguy1 - I have the same HF stuff and do my own tires. Before I had the equipment I just used spoons. Even then I would have the tire off and the new one on in less than an hour.

 

Free labor? Wow, where's that dealer at? Seriously, I think I paid $30 for the last genuine harley tube I bought, I would expect to pay for a half hours labor to swap a tube and expect the labor rate to be around $80. I would have been expecting to pay around $70.

When I used to bitch about prices my old co-worker used to tell me "Hey!!, It Ain't 1974 anymore"!!