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[QUOTE="rmc_olderthandirt, post: 1298055, member: 68872"] Like the High Lord Gomer said, I highly recommend that you do some of the work yourself. Changing a tire can be a bit intimidating and it does require some special tools. Do not try to change a tire using screw drivers! The "tire irons" are not expensive (I recommend having three) but it can be very frustrating until you learn how NOT to pinch a tube in the process. If/when you learn it, however, it will pay back in spades when you need to fix a flat when you are out camping & riding on a holiday weekend. If you don't want to deal with changing the tire at least remove the wheel yourself. If the front brake is a disk then it is fairly trivial job and it is only slightly harder with drum brakes. A word of caution: there will be spacers between the wheel and forks. When you remove the axle bolt pay careful attention to which side the spacers are on and which direction they face. I recommend putting the axle bolt and spacers back in place until you are ready to put the wheel back on. The fork covers will probably be a bit more work. I suspect that the forks need to come completly off the bike so the covers can slide on over the top. Removing the wheel is the first step so you might as well do this job at the same time. I recommend marking the fork tubes in the triple clamp, both height and rotation, so that you can get them back into the same position. Then it is a fairly simple job of loosening the clamp, sliding the fork out, slapping the cover in place and reinstalling. When you buy a tire at a shop the installation might be free, if the wheel is removed from the bike. Bringing your own tire in I would expect to be charged $15 to $20. If they have to remove the wheel from the bike then I would not be surprised if they reverted to standard shop rates, which could be $75 to $100 an hour with an hour minimum. Oh, and don't be surprised if there is a $15 fee to dispose of the old tire. Rod [/QUOTE]
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