Hey everybody, Billy here from Billys Bike Adventures,
thanks for tuning in today and watching the video. Now today I am going to be talking to you about
two tool kits from Eastbound. They are for the BMW GS and GSA, the R 1200 GS and GSA. The two
tool kits, one of them enables you to remove the wheels from the motorbike. So for the front wheel
you may have to take off the front callipers. It enables you to do that. For the other kit it is
a tyre repair kit. Essentially it enables you to remove the tyres off the wheels once you've
got them off the bike. Now the reason I like them is that they, one that they're
very compact pack away down into two small packet packages, easily fit into a toolbox
allow you to store other things in the toolbox as well because they are quite compact and they are
extremely lite weight and versatile. So if that's of some interest, keep watching and let's get into it.
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make sure that you don't miss out on any updates. So before we get into a practical application
of taking one of the wheels off a bike and beginning to strip the tyre off the wheel,
what I thought I do first of all is show you the two tool kits, what's in each tool kit,
how they go together and then we will get in to the practical demonstration, so let's get started
with the toolkit to take the wheels off the bike. So here we go here are the two tool kits now said
they pack down nicely into two small packages, very very lite and compact as well. These two
tool kits put together weigh no more than these two spanners with the tyre levers at the end,
ok. So the same weight as this, is, I would say arguably they are almost the same weight,
there is very little difference between them so in here you have got more versatility in the
tools in here than what you have with these two spanners here, so really good pieces of kit. So
let's see what's inside each one. So let's go through the tools,
each of the elements of the tool kit to be able to remove the wheels off your bike.
Ok, two hollow tubes, two short levers or one long lever. You have got a T50, a T, a Torx head 50.
This is to remove the bolts from the rear wheel. You get a T45, that is for the pinch bolts on the
front axle. You got a 17mm spanner or socket head and that is to remove the front axle wheel nut.
You got an adaptor, a hex head adaptor, this is an adaptor that you are going
to use the start building your tool. You get a 3/8 square socket adaptor.
You get a 10mm socket and that is so you can put your, both your Torx heads into one and the
other end onto the 3/8 adaptor and you get a 13mm socket and that is to remove the bolts from the
rear brake callipers and the front brake callipers as well. So now, let's start building the tools
show you how it goes together. So as I said you can either have 2 short levers or 1 long lever.
You are going to need the adaptor. Now the 3/8 adaptor bit that goes into, goes into the 19mm
end of the adaptor, so that goes in there like that. Then you have got your 10mm socket, that
bolts onto the 3/8 adaptor and if you were taking off a rear wheel on a bike the Torx head 50,
that simply goes in there and that's the first part of wrench to go. Then all you do is put the
17mm socket into one end of the long lever or short lever and then slip that on 17mm
and there's your wrench to start taking the tools, the bolts off the rear wheel.
Now let's have a look at the tool kit that enables you to take the tyres of the wheels once you've
got the wheels off the bike. So as with the other toolkit you two hollow tubes and again, a short,
two short levers or one long lever. Now, this is important that you buy the two kits together
because when it comes to remove the tyre off the wheel you are going to need two long levers rather
than too short lever so if you only buy the, the the tyre removal kit make sure that you
purchase an extra set of tubes as well because you are going to need two long levers for that
ok. So if you got too long levers you got your two tyre levers here ok, so they just plug into
one into each tube and of course then you have got your two short levers or more additional purchase
of more tubes you have got long levers, so there is your tyre levers built there.
This is the Eastbound bead breaker. A very nice simple bit of kit that you add to your two
tyre levers to be able to break the bead on your tyre. Really good bit of kit and I will show you
how to use that. So that's the tyre removal kit. What doesn't come with it and you will need this
by the way, you will need this piece of kit here. This is the wheel wedge. So what happens is that
when are you, when you start using your tyre levers and you put your tyre levers into the wheel
edge, into the wheel rim and pushing down on the tyre, that first time that you press the tyre away
from the rim, these two pieces here, these two pieces here will jam in between the tyre wall and
the rim and that is important because without that it is going to be really hard to break the bead on
these tyres with this kit, you will need this right so make sure that you purchase the wheel wedge
as well and I will show you how brilliantly this works because once you put this in,
it is a really easy next movement then just to break the bead on the tyre and I will show you
a demo of that. So there is the two kits, so let's get into a practical demonstration
now. So what I am going to do today is take the rear wheel off my bike and I'm going to
start taking the tyre, break the bead on the tyre and start stripping the tyre off the
bike so keep getting and let's get started. So the first thing to do now is to take the
bolts out of the real wheel. Now this rear wheel, the bolts on here are set to 60 Nm,
so you should only need the short lever on the wrench, relatively straightforward, not too tight
and here is my wrench set up that I showed you earlier. So let's get start, let's start
by backing out these bolts. The other thing you will need to do make is sure that your rear wheel
is in gear otherwise it's just going to spin as you use the lever to loosen the bolts.
What I am doing, I am just loosening for now because once they are loose
I can take the, the short lever part of the wrench off and then just back the bolts out using the,
the wrench part or just using the T50 part of the tool.
There we go. so all those bolts are loose now so I'm just going to back them all the way out now.
That is all the bolts out now, so we can now take the tyre, take the wheel off the bike.
So the first you are going to need to do is obviously deflate the tyre. Now, I have already
done this, I have removed the valve core from the valve so the tyre is already deflated.
So the first thing we have to do now is start breaking the bead around the tyre on the wheel so
I have got my two long levers now. I've taken the other two
tubes from the tool kit to add to the tyre kit to make sure that I have got two long levers ok,
so that's going to be quite important and I have got my two leave ends on my tyre levers.
So first things that we are going to do is we are going to need to put in the wheel wedge
so what we have to do first of all is get the two tyre levers under the rim. So that's the first one
under and then we need to leave enough gap between the two
tyre levers to make sure that we can get the two knobby ends here of the wheel wedge between the
tyre wall and the wheel rim so we just need to leave enough gap for us to be able to do that
so other tyre lever goes in there like that and then one knee on one side, we push down
and we push down sufficiently to get a good gap between the tyre wall and the wheel wedge,
the tyre wall and the rim, now that is, is the wheel wedge in position. Now that the wheel wedge,
so we have got the wheel wedge now. First thing that we need to do now is to start breaking the
bead close to the wheel wedge. So we get the first tyre lever then this bead breaker simply goes in,
it slots in on top of the of the first lever that is in and this flat end, not the curved end here,
but this flat end connects with the flat end of the tyre lever here and it faces down towards
the rim of the wheel. Then you place the other tyre lever under the rim and slot into the top
of the of the bead breaker and then pull together, pull together and push down,
and that is the bead just about broken on that side. We will need to do it one more time ok.
So we will need to do it one more time, a little bit for the round and then once we do it here,
that should be enough then not to use the bead breaker again. We
just push that in, squeeze together, there we go, that is the bead broken, yep. So what we
can do now is just use one tyre lever and start working our way all the way around.
and that is the bead broken on one side of the wheel
on the tyre, turn it over, we do exactly the same thing again.
Back tyre, or the tyre off the bead both sides. So what we can start doing now is stripping the
tyre from the wheel. Now what you going to need for this as well and I am going to highly advise
that you get some of these to protect the rims on your wheel and that is some wheel protectors
or rim protectors. So when you are about to take the the tyre off the wheel, curved end
goes in under the rim. You take one of your tyre levers. This time the curved and
is going to go in upside down. One side of the rim protector, slot that in right under, the, we
get the other one in first of all to get it started, the other tyre lever goes in
make. Make your rim protectors are on and then we can start pulling that,
that tyre over,
let's put that other rim back in again. That has come out. Make sure it is on, tyre levers go over.
There we go. That's your tyre now starting to come off the rim. So you just simply now take out
that tyre lever, move your rim protector round. Get as close as you can to the last tyre lever,
put that in. Put that in, put the rim protector in and then
slot that one over and on you go. Just keep now moving your way all the way around the, the
tyre and you have one side of the tyre off. Flip it over, do exactly the same thing. Now the beauty
of these products from Eastbound, is that you saw how quickly I was able to break the bead
around the tyre from the from the wheel with the with the wheel wedge. Really important you get the
wheel wedge, so really versatile lite weight tool. I can have this tyre change for the inner tube out
or repaired really really quickly, so there is a good demonstration of the tools from Eastbound.
So that is how to use the two tool kits from Eastbound to take the wheels off your bike
and also change the tyre, break the bead on the tyre as well. Hope you find that useful. I will
put links in the description to the two tool kits as well as Eastbound based in the Netherlands as
well. I don't get any kick back from Eastbound if you decide to order from those links nothing that
comes back to me from that, so go ahead. Or you can always got to the shop online and order from,
directly from Eastbound as well. Any questions or comments, leave them down
below the description and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Thumbs up as well,
much appreciated, also share with anybody that might be interested in getting tool kits
for their BMW GS or GSA. Thank you very much for watching and I will catch you again very soon.