Front & rear wheel removal without center stand

[Grabcon]

To put it honestly I hate changing tires. Even with good tools that last time I tried on my wife's F700GS I broke the TPMS sensor off in the wheel and ended up bringing both wheels in for tire replacement. I would rather give the shop 30 bucks each than mess with it. I am 20 miles oneway to the shop so they both come off and into the shop at the same time.

 

[SMSW]

With ceiling joists (they look like 2x6's) why did you not just lift the bike in the air a few inches using the rachet straps. Your crash bars offer a perfect front attachment point, the rear swing arm might work for the rear.

 

[Grabcon]

The joists are 12ft 2x4's and the building is a historic building owned by the forest service. The ratchet straps are really there to balance the bike. The bash plate is sitting on a large block of wood that supports the bike.

 

[Grabcon]

Well after finding out that the shop was a couple days behind and that my tire replacement was fill in work and after several folks here and another forums said just do them yourself, I decided to make the plunged do removal and mounting. Was it horrible? Not really it went considerably better than my wife's F700GS. The Wee had factory Bridgestone's and I will say that the back removal was kind of a pain, the front went pretty easy.

Mounting was surprising I put on the Motoz Tractionator GPS front and rear. The front went on without tools. Sprayed some Dawn on the bead and it just pushed on, The rear was a bit more formidable. The last foot or so of getting the bead over the rim was a challenge, the carcass was fairly ridged and until I got it to the center of the rim it just wouldn't slip on. But at the end of the day I learned something and the job got done. Would I do it again? Sure

Thanks to the encouragement from those that said "Just do it!"