What you want are some Soma steel core. The rim friendliness of plastic levers with the strength of metal ones. Best of both worlds.
tyre levers
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Gerry Attrick
Lincolnshire Mountain Rescue Consultant
Agree with kyuss. I generally use the Crank Bros. speed lever which works fine on 80% of tyres, but that last 20% needs a little more brute force, and the Soma levers are the mutts nuts.
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
I use the PBK steel core ones - best of both worlds (like the Soma ones), amazing value at £1.99 for set of 3 (delivered)
http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=t0041
http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=t0041
I use the yellow Mitchelin ones after seeing a good recomendation for them. I was a bit concerned how flimsy they looked, but just a few days ago used them to fit my new Swhalbe Marathon Plus which where a nightmare to fit because they were such a tight fit, but know matter how much leverage I applied, they only bent and I could not break them even after I could not apply any more leverage due to them bending. Only problem with them is they do not have hooks to fasten to the spokes.
The Park Tools tyre levers are available at Evans as I have a set of them as well but never used them yet.
The Park Tools tyre levers are available at Evans as I have a set of them as well but never used them yet.
Steve Austin
The Marmalade Kid
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plastic levers for me. I would rather they broke than bending a rim with metal levers. Park levers work nice, as do Pedros
http://www.mothercare.com/Mothercar...ng=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=161674031&mcb=core
Remember to lever your tyre with the handle end and eat your Potnoodle with the 'business' end.
Remember to lever your tyre with the handle end and eat your Potnoodle with the 'business' end.
Mortiroloboy
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Euan Uzami said:
I still managed to snap mine
