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 ...

TOM: There is a tire-mounting tool you can buy for less than 50 bucks. It's called a visit to your local gas station, where you ask them to mount and balance the tires for you. RAY: Actually, you ...

You simply can't have a cool car without wheels. While you are all saying in unison "Thank you Captain Obvious," I'll go one step further: "You can't have a cool hot rod with cool wheels." Wheels and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When off-roading, it is customary to reduce tire-inflation pressure to enhance grip. This practice also increases the possibility of instant and unwelcome tire deflation due to an accidental loss of ...