tyre lever snapped any substitute I can use?

[Saluki]

Look at the spoon I found though. Worked a charm. Like it was made to be a tyre lever.

Is that spoon hallmarked? You are very posh but have excellent taste in proper spoons.
buy some tyre levers, follow that link to the blue lever, they are stunning.

 

[pawl]

ok i'll try spoons hope this isnt a wind up

If you’re spoons are like mine you stand no chance they have the soft grip handles.

 

[rogerzilla]

I rarely need tyre levers but a QR will do in a pinch.

 

[fossyant]

Buy some more. No-one has just two levers.

 

[Blue Hills]

Trying to swap tyres around on my two bikes and damn the gatorskin tyres are so hard to take off literally snapped one of the tyre levers the second one I put in. Would appreciate any other substitutes I could maybe use. Watched a few vids on tyre replacement and they make it look so easy...

For once in contemporary cycling there is a simple cheap answer - Park Tools blue tyre levers.
I reckon they are effectively unbreakable and I've taken off some very tough tyres.

 

[Stephenite]

I’ve had to use a microwave oven, warm soapy water, zip ties, and MC tyre levers before now.

That was to get a solid rubber tyre on to an e-scooter.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

We always used the handle end of tablespoons as kids

Now that's poverty. Surely there would have been some lost soul you could have just adopted.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

For once in contemporary cycling there is a simple cheap answer - Park Tools blue tyre levers.
I reckon they are effectively unbreakable and I've taken off some very tough tyres.

I've snapped park tool blue tyre levers, mind you I can destroy most things.

 

[Saluki]

For once in contemporary cycling there is a simple cheap answer - Park Tools blue tyre levers.
I reckon they are effectively unbreakable and I've taken off some very tough tyres.

I would say much the same about Bontrager Red ones.

 

[slowmotion]

If you don't want to break the tyre lever in the first place, get each of the three under the rim ( about two spokes apart, and not levered down) before getting the free ends down onto a spoke.

 

[GuyBoden]

These decathlon levers are good and seem unbreakable, I can removed my Marathon+ tyres with them without any problem, I've bought two sets over the years, one for spares.

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/pack-of-3-tyre-levers-yellow/_/R-p-120

 

[Blue Hills]

Important of course that levers don't bend.
I bought some from a normally decent company that I think are probably unbreakable.
But they achieve this by just bending. So useless.
The Park ones seem stubby compared to some and therefore possibly less effective/less leverage, but I know that they will neither break nor bend.

 

[Mralexrides]

Managed to do

If you don't want to break the tyre lever in the first place, get each of the three under the rim ( about two spokes apart, and not levered down) before getting the free ends down onto a spoke.

That's actually a 200iq move I'll do that next time. Took the wheel in bike shop after pinch flatting it 3 times. cost £17 but I probably spent that much money on the inner tubes I wrecked alone. To think that I changed the other 3 tyres no problem first time. Only one other was a gatorskin one though. If I somehow puncturing the gatorskins im just going to buy different tyres.

 

[andrew_s]

Get some proper traditional Carradice levers.
Won't bend, break, or make difficult even more so by being thick. The flat section is also more rim friendly than the common cheap versions

 

[roley poley]

These decathlon levers are good and seem unbreakable, I can removed my Marathon+ tyres with them without any problem, I've bought two sets over the years, one for spares.

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/pack-of-3-tyre-levers-yellow/_/R-p-120

At £2 with a two year warranty I am persuaded