[conquermike]

Installing Rear Motoz Tractionator. Been a bear. Contemplating murder (joke). I've emailed Motoz but am not optimistic, they don't include a phone number which shows they don't really want to communicate with people.

Thought about reaching out to Rocky Mtn where I bought the tires, but they did not know that Enduro tires don't always have heavy point marks so I'm not sure they're knowledge on tires is that great.

Any help is appreciated as we wait for the Motoz people to wake up in AUS, but even then who knows when they'll get it my email, if ever.

Thank you!

 

[conquermike]

Thank you to everybody for the replies! The tires are toast sadly, will be buying a new one.

Rick was bang-on, the bead of the tire was high on the rim and as soon as I lowered the bead of the tire to be in the valley of the rim, it went on like cake. Super easy.

I used Mothers Detailing Spray as lubricant which, while it isn't a tire Lube, it helped a lot and I used generous amounts. I used it on all parts of both sides the tire where it contacted the rim in hopes that my tire levers would create enough leverage to get the tire to slide where it needed, but alas. That's the pooled up running liquid in the picture. I used it on both sides of the tires and probably used 25% of the bottle, I sprayed a ton but alas, because of how the bread was positioned on the rim, it was only going to help so much.

I also heated up the tire with my Pocket rocket stove since it's something I'll be carrying with me on the upcoming trip. Heated it up many times and it helped a bit but not enough to overcome the poor positioning.

 

[conquermike]

IF using tire irons stiff wall tires will go better if you have help.

3 short tire irons and a couple clamps to like below to squeeze the opposite side of the tire into the drop center while working very small bites of the tire bead that is properly lubed.

If you are using excessive force and are hearing or seeing ripping and/or tearing STOP and regroup as you are doing it wrong. Even stiff walled tired are not that much harder to install verses soft walled sport tires. It's all about the technique.

View attachment 313743

I agree about technique, the process was super easy with the motionpro bead pro set until the bead problem surfaced, and once i shifted the portion of the tire 180 degrees from where i was working to be more towards the center of the rim, which again that was an easy adjustment, the rest of the job was painfully easy. Just took a few hours and the cost of a new Tractionator GPS from Motoz to learn

 

[conquermike]

Everyone’s got good comments but I have one more. Maybe look at getting a set of tire spoons that have soft edges vs using a pry bar with a hard 90 degree edge.

I'm using Motion Pro Bead pro's, all of the edges are rounded on them 😉