Rear Tire Installation Failure

[Grumpy Goat]

Agree - stay on it. Watch a couple more videos of guys wrestling tires onto rims (or the guys at Fortnine slipping on an automobile tire), and you'll feel more comfortable in your application of diffuse force. If the fit is tight, the more tire irons and wood blocks (or sticks by the side of the road), the better....

Good advice. Thanks - will do. I expect a front tire would be next, so another learning experience with respect to being careful around big brake discs.

That said, and not to steer this thread away from tires - but DC Dave - noticed the old Hauni badge on your work bench.... Italian bikes and German cigarettes seem like a bad match. With smoking tastes like that, I guess only natural you'd gravitate to BMW Motorrad.