How do your break these stubborn beads on the tires? I want to tube my front tire

[Georgiabii]

I just put 3 tires on mine...

Best 30 bucks I ever spent to watch 3 down on their luck tire guys kill themselves for my amusement.

[BigRedGrizzly]

I was able to mount my tires. It was difficult but I did it. I laid all three of them on the old cast iron radiators in my house and cranked up the heat. I got them pretty warm and flexible. Lubed the heck out of one side with windex and managed to get the one side of the tire on the rim by just pushing it on. Getting the second side on was the struggle. Lubed the heck out of it and went to work at it with 4 tire irons. 2 large ones from Harbor Freight and 2 motion pro tire spoons. By the time I emerged from the room I was doing this in I was shirtless, extremely sweaty, and exhausted. With laughter, my wife said to me that it looked like I was just in a fight. I told her I kind of was... Lol...

[350for350]

Sometimes they can be a fight, other times they seem to almost mount themselves. Having experience with a lot of different sizes of tires helps. My worst atv experience was about 12 years ago when I tried to put a tube in one of my 350x tires. Brand new tube, wouldn't go all the way on, wouldn't come back off. I got so mad that I cut it off the rim. Then I bought another and it went on easy. It must have been one for an 8" rim in a box that said 9". I couldn't return it after I gave it the Jason Voorheevs treatment either.

[derrick81787]

I had to install tubes in my riding mower's tires, and I was able to break the bead by beating the tire near the rim (but not actually hitting the rim) with one of those smaller sledges. It took a few whacks, but it was relatively easy.