Re: Daft question - wheel spacers and tyre changes.

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:26:16 GMT, wessie <putmynamehere@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks, that's okay though. I was wondering if taking Mr. Bandit into
National would work out cheaper than taking it into a Bike Shoppe to
have the tyres changed.

Bike Shops are rarely cheap sources for tyres.

National Tyres can be very good on price and service. It all depends on the
individual branch as evidenced by earlier posts.

I'd phone around local independents: although most of them will ask for you
to remove the wheels which is not a good idea in your case. Doesn't Prawn
know of one?

I've removed the rear tyre before on the ER-5 and it went back on
okay.

Mind you, the rest of the bike went ping so that's probably not a good
reference.
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