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Bead Lever
£12.50
- Purple
Product Description
Today’s tight bicycle tyres can be extremely difficult to push away from the wheel rim side wall by hand when removing a tyre. Hooked rims make it impossible to lever between the tyre edge and rim side wall and the bead can be stuck with tubeless sealant or because the rim has a bead-seating rebate.
Now there is a portable solution – Bead Lever connects to the Smart Lever handle and clamps around your tyre, so the whole tyre can be levered away from the sidewall.
So don’t get stranded – get a Bead Lever!
Bead Lever also has a valve core remover integrated into its stainless-steel body - particularly useful when tubeless tyres are fitted.
British ingenuity and quality - designed and manufactured in England with a stainless-steel body and replaceable composite parts.
Smart Lever tool required to use Bead Lever.
Size:
- 104mm long
- 32mm depth at widest point
- 21mm width at widest point
Delivery & Returns
DELIVERY
- UK Royal Mail 24 (1-3 days): £3.95
- UK Royal Mail 48 (2-4 days): £3.15
- Europe tracked (3-5 days): £9.95
- USA tracked (5-7 days): £9.95
- Rest of world (5-7 days): £10.95
RETURNS
If our instructions are followed, we know you are going to be absolutely delighted with Smart Lever and Bead Lever. But if, for whatever reason, you are not completely happy – we allow 28 days to return unused items for a refund. Just let us know within 14 days of receiving your Smart Lever product that you want to cancel and return your item(s), and you have another 14 days to return them to us. Please see our returns policy HERE.
Instructions
Fit a Tyre
Place one edge of the tyre, known as the bead, onto the rim. If you have an inner tube, pump in just enough air to give it shape, then push the valve through its hole and go around the rim pushing the inner tube over so that it is sitting inside the rim and not between the tyre and outer rim wall.
Now rotate the Smart Lever shoe so it is pointing back away from the long handle, place the shoe over the rim edge a few spokes back from the valve and swing the handle around half a turn until the roller is just below the edge of the tyre. Holding the wheel with one hand, push with the other against the thumb press so that the shoe slides around the rim under the tyre bead, lifting it from inside as it pushes the tyre over.
If the tyre falls off at the opposite cross over point - simply hold that area with your free hand. When you cannot push further with your thumb, go around the wheel from the opposite tyre cross-over point right back to Smart Lever ensuring that the tyre bead is in the rim’s central channel. You will find you can now advance further with the thumb press. If the tyre cannot be pushed fully on, go around a second time to ensure the bead is fully in the central channel.
If the tyre is still too tight to fully install by pushing forward, the Smart Lever shoe will now be firmly wedged under the tyre bead, allowing you to push the lower part of the handle to lever the tyre up from the outside with the lifting roller. Each time you lever up, the shoe pulls more of the tyre over so you can advance a little further with the thumb press. By repeatedly levering and pushing forward, it should be possible to fully seat even the tightest tyres.
Remove a Tyre
First, release any remaining air, then try to push the tyre away from the side wall of the wheel rim. In most cases, the tyre edge (known as the bead) will move away without difficulty, but this can be extremely difficult with some tubeless tyres or where the rim has a bead seating rebate. If you cannot move the tyre bead away by hand, then you need the optional Bead Lever attachment.
With the tyre bead positioned in the central channel of the rim all the way round and the Smart Lever hook turned in line with the handle, choose a loose section of tyre opposite the valve and carefully hook just under the edge of the bead. Then lever a little whilst pulling outwards with the short handle, to avoid hooking the tube (if you have one), and lever down over the edge of the rim.
Now turn the handle at a right angle to the hook, grip the wheel with one hand and push the handle with the other to see if the hook can be pushed along under the tyre for easy removal. If the tyre is too tight, then push the Smart Lever handle in towards the wheel a couple of times and return before pushing forward a little again with the hook flat to rim side wall. Repeat until the hook moves easily under the tyre, removing all the way round.
If the hook will not move forward, it may be that the inner tube is caught – so pull the hook a little further out from under the tyre and try again.
Bead Lever
Place the wing screw through the round hole in Bead Lever pointing in the same direction as the metal hook above, then insert the curved metal end of Bead Lever through the short slot in the Smart Lever handle from the side below the shoe, so that the screw passes through the slot below. Then screw on (clockwise) the domed side of the clamping nut a few turns.
With the composite side pieces (of the nut) placed on either side of the Smart Lever handle, open the jaw of the clamp. Also ensure that that the tyre removal hook is in line with its handle, then push the jaws over the tyre on the opposite side of the wheel to the valve. Screw the wing nut clockwise to clamp the tyre, keeping the composite jaw parts close to the edge of the rim. To tighten quickly - squeeze the jaws together with your free hand whilst screwing the wing nut – continue to do this whilst fully tightening the screw.
Then pull the handle around the rim and down towards the centre of the wheel from the removal hook side, ensuring that the removal hook pivots around the rim edge. If the clamp is not tight enough to hold the side wall, then it should still be held under the tyre tread. This should pull the rim bead away from the side wall. When it starts to separate, hold the lever handle in position against the spokes a while to allow the bead to fully separate. If it does not separate – reposition the hook and clamp jaw, try to tighten more and repeat.
Once separated in one place it should now be possible to push the remaining bead away from the rim side wall all the way round - if not repeat the action with the Bead Lever, further round the wheel.
Valve Core Remover
The valve core remover is integrated into Bead Lever’s stainless-steel body. Use the wrench shown ringed in red below to unscrew or tighten a valve core, this is particularly useful when using Tubeless Tyres.