VAR tyre lever

Anyone know of a source of VAR tyre levers? The CTC shop doesn't
carry them anymore, and Geoffry Butler's online arm don't seem to
either (they used to be the CTC shopkeepers).

A friend lent me his on Sunday's ride as I struggled to put a 406 x 20
onto the front of the Pino, having straightened out the hook on my
lovely Park Tools blue levers.



Tim

Tim Hall wrote:
Anyone know of a source of VAR tyre levers? The CTC shop doesn't
carry them anymore, and Geoffry Butler's online arm don't seem to
either (they used to be the CTC shopkeepers).


www.bikeplus.co.uk

Specifically:

URL:http://www.bikeplus.co.uk/cgi-bin/quikstore.pl?store=&search=yes&detail=yes&product= TYS42&category=&keywords=var&hits_seen=40&page=sea rch.html&and=&affiliate_id=

URL:http://tinyurl.com/htsaz


--chris



A friend lent me his on Sunday's ride as I struggled to put a 406 x 20
onto the front of the Pino, having straightened out the hook on my
lovely Park Tools blue levers.



Tim

On Mon, 15 May 2006 13:03:34 +0100, Chris Gerhard
wrote:

Tim Hall wrote:
Anyone know of a source of VAR tyre levers? The CTC shop doesn't
carry them anymore, and Geoffry Butler's online arm don't seem to
either (they used to be the CTC shopkeepers).


www.bikeplus.co.uk

Specifically:

URL:http://www.bikeplus.co.uk/cgi-bin/quikstore.pl?store=&search=yes&detail=yes&product= TYS42&category=&keywords=var&hits_seen=40&page=sea rch.html&and=&affiliate_id=

URL:http://tinyurl.com/htsaz



Bingo! Thanks for that Chris. I looked on the bikeplus website
(they're the Geoffrey Butler online prescense I mentioned) but
couldn't see it. I'll order a couple.

Tim

I've broken a few of them.

If you push the tyre that's already on into the middle of the rim well,
you won't need them. In fact if you do this meticulously, you usually
won't even need levers. Especially if you completely deflate the tube
first.

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) wrote:
I've broken a few of them.

If you push the tyre that's already on into the middle of the rim well,
you won't need them. In fact if you do this meticulously, you usually
won't even need levers. Especially if you completely deflate the tube
first.

There speaks someone who's never fitted a new Schwalbe Marathon Slick to
an Alex DV-15 rim...

--
Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
A *National* Socialist Government did you say, Mr. Chaplin?

Well I haven't fitted every kind of tyre to every kind of rim, but I've
fitted dozens of kinds of tyres to numerous rims and don't often resort
to levers if I'm really patient. I might add that I have very strong
hands.

" of http://groups.google.com wrote:
Well I haven't fitted every kind of tyre to every kind of rim, but I've
fitted dozens of kinds of tyres to numerous rims and don't often resort
to levers if I'm really patient. I might add that I have very strong
hands.

It's hard to be patient when there are 20 hungry cyclists looking forward to
their next tea stop waiting for you to finish mending the puncture. I'll
stick to my VAR lever thanks.
--
Steph Peters
Chorlton Wanderers Cycling Group
Monthly slow and easy rides from South Manchester
http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/cycling/chwan.htm