How an ENGINEER changes a dirt bike tire (EASY step by step tutorial)
My name is Matt Berger and I am a tire engineer at Kenda Tires. Watch along as I show you a step by step tutorial on how I change a dirt bike tire! #tirechange
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This guy definitely should have way more subscribers love your video! Bet you won’t pin this
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@@MattBerger02 hey Matt long story short I hope to Flip dirt bikes in my future currently I only know how to do only Basic things when repairing them (change oil, plastics, flush fluids etc) I love dirtbiking though ! I'm gonna take a small engine repair course to expand my knowledge on this stuff, anyway I like your videos, how did you acquire the skill and knowledge to take apart bikes and repair them?
Nobody tightened r nut lol , that’s a good way to burst your valve
“I’m not a tire expert” Literally a tire engineer. 😂😂😂 Good stuff. Great video.
Extremely grateful for your video. I was about to throw in the towel, but watched and re-watched, then had the sweet satisfaction of replacing my tire. I felt like I had no business riding off-road if I couldn't do this and your video got me over the hump.
Same
Well said! Same here!
The only video I have seen so far that gives you the pro tip about the rim lock reset. That makes the whole video way better than anything else out there. Thank you so much man
Best tire installation video I have watched, great tips along the way to point out key parts of tire installation. Thank you!!!
Best and most detailed tire change video I’ve seen, even better than Jay Clark’s. I’ve never changed a tire yet, but after watching and listening to you, I have the confidence to tackle it. Thanks so much 👍
Literally the best how to put a tire on video.
Appreciate it! 🤘
One of the best tire change videos. One point, you want to line the white dot on the sidewall with the rim lock. If no rim lock, line it up with the valve stem. The white dot indicates the lightest point on the tire .
Love u man I’ve been waitin every day checking for a new vid keep up the good work
Appreciate it! 🤘
I've been changing tires for about 40 years and just learned I was doing it wrong and a much harder way. Thank you. Very informative and easy to follow video!
This is the best explanation on KZhead on how to change tires for the average guy and I've watched most of them. Thank you Matt! I watched and rewatched many times to change my tube and tire yesterday. The new tire I used has super hard rubber so OMG it was hard. But I did it all thanks to you! Engineers rock!
Glad to help!!! Thank you for the kind words and support
@@MattBerger02 You're welcome Matt! Thank you again.
Quality video. For tire removal and I always start near the rim lock, it allows the opposite side to drop further into the rim center. When mounting, before inserting valve stem into the rim, place the lower side of the tire under the rim lock, this makes the install easier and holds the tire in place. For some extra style points, line up the printed tire name and valve stem. I have watches dozens of videos on the subject and changed dozens of tires, yours is one of the better videos.
This was very comprehensive and well explained. You’re a natural.
I appreciate that! 👍
Great videoz! The tips are so great for changing tires. The key is the trade in the bike then I don’t need this video
Thanks Larry!
Dude what a great tutorial it's been 10 years since I've done a motorcycle tire this showed me the easier way to get it done thanks 😊
dude!!! you rock!!! Damned, you saved me an embarrassment of taking my half mounted tire to a nearest shop. thank you!!!
This was excellent, thanks! Explaining why you did things and things to look out for and correct if it's going wrong was great.
Thank you for the support, glad I could help!
Great Job! I just did my first tire change on a back rim. After a fight, I got it on. Now I know what I did wrong and am going to be quickly jumping to the front. THX, T
The most helpful tire changing tutorial! Thanks.
The more lube the better! I can not agree more my mam. Lol. Great video, thanks for sharing. Just got my son a SSR 125 and I’m sure this will help a lot in the near future.
Great job Matt. You made it look easy even with a bucket and the harder rear wheel.
Thanks Robert!
You post this the moment after I destroy my new dunlop and rim 😂😂😆🤦♂️
Dannnnggg my bad! 😂
@@MattBerger02 all good still great video I'll definitely try again. 👍👍
Clean, clear, simple and precise, very well done dude, brilliant vid 👏👏💪💪🎯
By far the best tire change video I’ve ever seen
I love this style of video, I think you should try and keep doing more tutorials!🔥
I definitely will!
Thanks for making this concise easy-to-follow video. It helped me push through a couple of jams doing my 1st tire change.
Watched many videos to learn how to change a tire and you explained it the best...key features such as making sure the lip is above the wheel when reinstalling etc.... Thanks!!
Thanks for doing it with a bucket, every tutorial is using a stand.
Best how to change a dirt bike tire out there on you tube! Ill be using this procedure for now on! Thanks brother!
I appreciate that!
Never saw the bead buddy before…thanks dude
Hello Matt - this is by far the best video I've seen on performing this project and I have watched many - Thanks for sharing
Your video was awesome I can’t wait to change tire now
This is a great video! Thanks for your expertise!
this is without a doubt the best tire change vid I've seen and, the only rear tire change. Thank you. I liked and you also have another subscriber
Nice one Matt! New tyres and polishing up the rims is my next build video so this was really helpful 💪🏼
Excellent tutorial! Well said. This gave me the confidence I was looking for.
Great video. Makes sense keen to give it a try. Thanks!
Dude I absolutely love your bike build videos. This tutorial was great very helpful. Can’t wait to see the next build project.
Appreciate it Syd!
awesome information! thanks for the sharing.
Great video. Glad I found your channel
Tip. Buy yourself a Michelin patern tyre lever for remounting. It is curved to alow you to easily slide the tyre and tube onto the rim without it being pinched. It reduces the amout of force needed compared to using tyre spoons or standard levers. Also use proper tyre talc and bead seating paste, it makes life ao much easier and you don't have to worry about degradation of the tube or rim corrosion as can happen if using soap etc.
The best guy that redo's dirt bikes I know btw love the vids
Great video and tutorial. Anyway it took me 2 hours to put on a 3.50 veerubber onto a 17" surron wheel. Just to find out that I pinched the tube on 4 spots. Burning everything to the ground now its so frustrating...
You’ve been killing it Matt love your videos !
Thank you Mike! 👍
Very good explanation, great tips! Thanks for sharing. Already waiting for the next one👍👍
Thank you for the feedback!
Needed this a month ago! Awesome stuff dude!
Haha sorry! Thank you!
Really loving the videos from South Africa 🙌🏼💪🏽 Really helps to understand the smaller when doing this for this first time and not spending money to get a bike workshop to do it🙌🏼
Appreciate the positive feedback all the way from South Africa!
Great video, Bob Belgium
Thanks Bud!
Great video, thanks!!!
Great vids! Keep em coming!
Will do Greg!
I really like all your videos man!
Thanks Brandon!
Great video
I’ll be mounting my fresh new Kenda tires soon as my new rim locks get here. Thanks for the help bro 😎
That's what I like to hear!!!
Life saver definitely some good spoons needed and tire stand
Yep, so many people are expecting to do this with a pack of screwdrivers on the ground, LOL......like dude, just SPEND the damn money and buy the right equipment, otherwise pay a tire shop to do it.
Love you videos Matt keep it up
Will do, thank you!
Love the videos, recently found your channel and have been watching them all! Would love to see video of changing out spokes!
I appreciate the support. I will definitely have a wheel lacing video in the future!
Ive been looking into those tires they look mint would be so gald to win for my 2017 yz250f thanks good luck in the future Matt
Love your content!
Thanks Brendan!
Awesome!
Damn dude, this is fantastic!
Haha thanks Clint!!!
Nice video. To help the bead set in the "well" you can use a spoon left in the on the opposite side or pick up another cheap bead buddy. I used a 15 inch steel wheel with no tire from a car to change for a long time. Bolted that with wood to a bucket. Got a stand like you have. Then started using bibs. Learned to mount with a regular stand. Have upgraded to a rabaconda stand with a bead breaker bar so looking forward to learning that. Take the time to learn proper technique. I struggled on the garage floor with 3 crappy 8 inch irons. The bought a few nice 17 motion pro ones with the curve. Love those and still use them. I upgraded when I started using bibs to 3 huge spoon type and 2 bead buddies. Just started gradually adding stuff. Same with tools.
Nice video man keep it up!;)
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Who disliked this video... Awesome tutorial man
You got another subscriber
Awesome tips!!!
Thank you Jeff! 👍👍
Hi Matt can you do a video how to re do a two stroke top end
I will in the future for sure!
First!! Have been forward for such a long time for a new vid!! Keep up the great content, man!! ✌️🤘🤙
Thank you Jake!
Thank you so much buddy. First time ever for me to change tires on my bike. I just did the rear one this morning and worked perfectly. I will try the front one tomorrow morning. Thanks again bro. Have a good day sir.
Good day sir. I tried the front one this morning. My front tire is way narrower than the back one, that gave me a hard time with it. I pinch and blow my new tube... I will try again tomorrow morning. I have a spare tube that I bought just in case something happens, that was a good call. Have a good day sir. 😊
Good morning again sir. I just finished my front tire. My mistake yesterday was that I didn't have enough air in my tube at first. Like you said, it's very important... Your video is the best here for tire change. I'm all ready to go for the summer. Thank you so much bro. Have a good day sir.
Glad I could help Francis!!!
Great video! thank you . what do you think about unscrewing the valve nut all the way to the valve cap? i see lots of people do this. instead of just a snug fit
Best on you tube
Lloyd!!! Thank you my man!
thank you for the content, great timing i am thinking about painting my rims and i used to take my tires to tire change shop, but this time i will try to do it by myself. also i saw a trick to put baby powder in tire to prevent tube from pinching maybe you should make a video about painting rims haha ? kind regards
Awesome! Good luck!
Hey Matt, just found your channel and subscribed! Is there a video you posted where you go over your method of lacing wheels?
Good video. I’ve been changing tires for a long time on a bucket. . I think it’s easier with the bucket flipped over so you’re not trying to balance it on the rotor. And you can use it to put valve core etc in so you don’t loose them.
After I recorded and edited the video I realized that I had the bucket upsidedown the entire time.... 😂
I use a 6" C-clamp to break the bead on stubborn ones.
love the videos keep up the good work!!!!
Thanks Owen!
I’m studying mechanical engineering currently and would love if you had any tips on how to get into the motor sports industry/ automotive industry while pursuing my degree ?! Thank you in advance. I love the videos, keep up the great work 😎
That's awesome! And honestly, just start reaching out to as many companies you can find in the industry. I'm talking like research and find 25+ companies (find emails or phone #'s) and send them all an email with your resume and a cover letter. 20 probably won't respond, but you might have a good chance of landing something with the other 5!
That was a very good video, especially for a guy like me who is pretty mechanically inclined, but have fits trying to change a tire, or tube, only to pinch a tube, or outright fail after all that work. Thanks for sharing. By the way, do you know ‘Kenda Mike’ from the short course off road ‘department’? (For lack of a better term) The guy is a God in the MidWest! 👍🏼
is it a bad choice of combination if i run both 2.50-17 front and rear?
Good tips. One thing I'll add though, my Washougal II I put on actually did have a directional arrow. Should be on the brake rotor side.
Yes that's correct, my bad. The Washougal II REAR is nondirectional!
@@MattBerger02 Heh, it was actually on a 100/90-19 ;) rear tire
I just found your channel. Didn't know you were a Kenda engineer. I've had Kenda K270s on dual sports before and really liked them. What's a good proper non DOT dirt tire from kenda for soft trails? I'm in Houston Texas and our trails are all Sand and mud. Looking for a new tire for my CRF250X
Millville II's are going to be perfect for you! Make sure you're entered to win my tire giveaway because I'm giving away a set of Millville's!
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Потрясающие! Добро пожаловать и спасибо!
@mattberger Question: main ingredient of Windex is ammonia. Ammonia does degrade rubber. So it seems spraying ammonia on my tires and tube is 'bad' but you are a tire engineer and suggest spraying ammonia on my tube and tire, so what is going on here? I use silicone spray....great lube that does not degrade rubber and helps to prevent pinch flats on the trail.😊
Engineers are like CrossFit guys, they HAVE to mention they are an engineer
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Many times I seem to get a bulge in the sidewall of a freshly mounted tire right at the valve stem. This makes for a lump as the tire goes around. Does anybody know how to prevent that and once it's there how to get rid of it? It seems to happen often on soft carcass tires such as shinko 241 and others. Thanks
Hey remember me? I was wondering if maybe you would know how to get some circlips out of my piston I cant get them out and theres no opening to pry with? There in my 1986 indy 600 so theres 3 cylinders and I'm only trying to get the left piston out any help would be greatly appreciated. 🔧
Hmmm I honestly have never come across that... Check other youtube videos in sure there is something!
@@MattBerger02 oh I finally got them and it was a pain in the butt to get them out.
3:27 what if you have 2 rim locks about 150 degrees apart? 12:24 what are your thoughts on the Honda rubber grommets instead of a hex nut?
You need the hex nut when installing the tire, once you're finished and have set your tire pressure, removed the nut and install the grommet. The grommet keeps dirt out and allows the valve stem to have some wiggle room to decrease the chance of the stem getting torn out. You only need 1 rim lock, ideally the rim lock and valve stem are 4 spokes apart, this makes tire changes easier.
13psi back AND front?
where you resell these bikes. do you have a website?
No I do not. I just sell them on Facebook Marketplace locally
Thanks a lot... thaugt my Rimlock is broken, because its stuck too....
Happy to help! lol
Matt, question, why not put the first side of the tire on, then put the tube in, the put the second side of the tire on? I watched this a couple of times and it looks like the spoon keep pressing against the time on the first side of the install.
Great question. You can do it either way, but you will always be "battling" something. If you wait to put the tube in, it can be very difficult to get the tube correct in the tire and the valve stem in the hole. I find this battle to be more difficult, so I prefer to put the tube in first.
What tire PSI do you recommend for the Kenda K760 Trakmaster set?
If you're running in the woods and doing hill climbs and stuff, I'd recommend 10-11psi. You'll get some more traction!
Thats awesome that youre an engineer at kenda. How hard was it to land that job?
Honestly I just got lucky. They are local and I had the opportunity to co-op with them throughout college
@@MattBerger02 hell yea man thats sweet. Sounds like a dream come true to work for a company that supplies parts for your personal hobby. Keep up the great videos!!
@@liftedmike7415 haha I wish they supplied me with tires! I still have the purchase my own tires, but with a discount
im a total newbie to dirtbikes, what does the rimlock do?
The rimlock prevents the tire from spinning on the rim when accelerating quickly!
@@MattBerger02 oh cool thx
You forgot about the heavy/light spot dot or is that all bs? I put mine opposite the valve stem and at valve stem, tried both, makes no difference. Windex wasn't slippery enough, I just use diluted dish soap.
On an off-road dirt bike application, this would have very little impact! On-road tires, it's definitely not bs.
I didn't know that tires were like engineers.
Well its mine First thing to do this morning, last night came back on zipties lol
How did you become a tire engineer for Kenda??
Went to school for mechanical engineering and started a co-op with Kenda while still in school. When I graduated I got hired on full-time. I was lucky enough that they are local, right here in Akron, Ohio!
Easier said than done