I got my Pirelli MT66 put on today. I don't have the necessary tools to take the wheel off myself, so shipped the tire from Motorcycle Superstore to a local MC repair guy. His listed cost was $20 to mount a tire, $45 if he had to take the tire off the bike and put it back on. I got there at 9:30am, he got started at 9:50 after helping out another guy, and I left at 12:20pm. It's a good thing I'm a very patient person.
Nearly 2 and a half hours to change my rear tire
He had never worked with a Savage and Sammy (my bike) didn't want to cooperate very much. I bet that's the hardest he's worked for a mere $45 in quite a while. He even had to put on SEVEN 1OZ weights to balance my wheel properly! He didn't charge me for those, because we hadn't talked about paying for that before hand.
I was going to make a 150mile ride today to a gorgeous beach south of here, but now it's too late in the day for me to do all I wanted. Blah.
I'm happy to not be on a SLICK 10 year old rear tire that was cracked and dry with virtually no tread left at 7500miles. Can't wait to get this broken in and get back to leaning over far.
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