good tyre levers?

"Mike Causer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Nigel Cliffe said:

I really like the SpeedLever*. Several friends have watched amazed as it
zips a tyre on or off a wheel, and then bought one themselves. Works
down
to at least a 700x25mm tyre, and has heaved several very tight examples
over rims when ordinary levers were not working.

Does need a little care in where you push, or they look like they will
snap, though mine hasn't broken and is best part of a decade old.

(* about a fiver from Halfords, I think its under the Crank Bros name
these days, though mine is much older).

Seconded.

Mine is an ~8 year old Crank Brothers version, but more recently those
I've bought as presents for friends have been in Raleigh packaging. It
works fine on my assortment of 16", 17", 20" and 26" tyres.

Mike

I get a set of 3 from Tesco at 93p I have removed 700x20, 700x23, 700x25,
26x1.90, 20x1.75 and never had any problems apart from the 700x20 which took
a bit more leverage to get over the rim.

cheers
Jon_H

Peter Clinch said:

bugbear said:

So - can anyone recommend effective
tyre levers (mainly for narrow-ish 700c if
it makes a difference).

I use Park Tools plastic ones. They seem to have survived okay so far,
including the notoriously nasty Marathon <-> Brompton job.

I used to go with the Park ones, thought they were really good, until
I straightened them out trying to get an unknown 406 x 20 on. I'd
already buggered up two sets of the black glass reinforced Dyason type
ones.

Like Blonde elsewhere in the thread I think the VAR tool is the kiddy
when it comes to tight tyre/rim combinations. And like Danny, the Tacx
levers are dead good in all other situations. And they clip together.

I used to haved a speed lever, but it broke because I am a clumsy git.

Tim

Roos Eisma said:

bugbear bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim said:

I have bought and used several tyre levers
over the years.

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The best ones IME are stimson (sp?) and
came in a 3 quid levers + patches + glue
kit. Little buggers, with a "step" on the back
that pivots on the rim nicely.

You mean the metal Simson ones? I can probably spare a couple, every time
I bought a box of patches there was another set in there...

Still available from Halfords in the NL:
http://www.halfords.nl/NL/Acties/Catalog/ProductDetail.htm?productId=709502

Ooh! I'll have to check - I do remember at one point
Simson changed the design to a less good one.

But that looks MOST promising. Thanks.

BugBear