Many of us do a lot of our own motorcycle maintenance and repair. The motivations for this are varied, but cost savings is probably the number one reason. I know it is for me! I’ve been an Automotive ...

Having spent the better part of a year installing tires at the Pep Boys in Fredericksburg, Va., I thought I knew a thing or two about how a tire is mounted to a rim. It was my first job after ...

Replacing a tire — as in, removing the tire from the wheel and replacing it with a new one — is a fairly labor-intensive task. Even in a professional shop with tire machines, the process requires an ...

The workhorse of today’s modern tire shop is the tire changer. Tire-changing technology can range from basic to automatic and nearly autonomous. Most are built for specific shop needs, based on things ...

Stubby Tire Tools are easy to use and they provide good leverage to get the job done without damaging your rims. They are a welcome addition to the tire changing equipment in my garage. Early in my ...

Tire changers are a workhorse in any motorcycle shop, and the workhorse of tire changers is the long-running Coats 220 manual tire machine. First introduced in the 1970s and discontinued in 2017, the ...