Tru-Tension | Tyre Monkey | Tyre Lever | Bicycle Tools & Accessories

Fantastic, struggled to fit Cush core inserts before with hands and normal leavers on my downhill mtb tyres, ended up damaging rim tape. Bought this, not expecting great things but thought I’d wing it. Replacing my tyre today with the exact same make and model of tyre ready for the weekend and decided to try and fit my Cush core again. It honestly blew me away with how much it helped. Do it correctly, as instructed and zero issues. Highly recommended

Took a while to get the hand of it, but after a couple of tyres I got the hang of it. Found it much easier to use than my other levers.

And I’m not kidding!!I’d been thinking about buying this tyre lever and originally discounted it as I already had some in my kit. After reconsidering and watching the video made me think is it really that easy to use?? The answer is yes, very easy!!After going tubeless, I had been having flash backs to the days when I fitted my tyres, lots of swearing, slippages and injuries - I was dreading the day that I got an incurable puncture. Well that day came, 20 miles into a 200 mile ride. After a number of attempts I could not cure the puncture so I had to fit a tube. Using this tool, the tyre came off with ease allowing a tube to be fitted and re fitting was really as easy as it is shown on the video.By far the best tool in my kit, don’t think about it just buy one. It will be the best decision you made today!!

Works really great for installing tight tyres onto the rim. I've always had issues with my MTB 27.5x2.80 tyres as they are really tight to get on. But the way how this lever works makes it easier, especially combine with a specific bike tyre tool.Definitely worth getting if you have ridicously tight tyres that are a pain to get on with just hands and simple levers.

So, another tyre fitting gizmo, hoping to improve upon the humble tyre lever. I have a draw full of such things - and none has yet succeeeded in this seemingly simple task. But this one does come close - and with some thoughtful improved design could actually work. My experience is with tubeless mountain bike tyres, which may be at the harder end of the tyre fitting spectrum.Taking off - design fault 1 - not quite long enough (both in the lip to get under the bead - and in overall length to provide leverage) to get under the bead, so needed a well designed tyre lever (personal favourite muc-off rim stix - nice thin end to get under bead, but chunky and long enough to lever bead off) to make enough room to get the gizmo under the bead and start unseating the tyre over the rim. Without the extra tyre lever in play, you can't actually get the bead over the lip far enough for it to remain there - just pings back in behind the gizmo. With extra tyre lever locked onto a spoke, gizmo starts to unseat the tyre.... until tension rises in the bead as you stretch it over the edge of the rim - and you come to a juddering , knuckle grazing halt. Note here that I am very careful to move the entire bead of the tyre into the 'gulley' in the centre of the rim before starting this process, to keep bead tension to a minimum - this is error no 1 in most tubless tyre fitting issues. Here is design fault no 2 - the gizmo is too short to hold firmly enough with your whole hand to push hard enough to get past the sticking point (note - muc-off rim stix size would be about right dimensions). Why is this tyre lever gizmo so small? No-ones hands are this small. Daft design decision. Make it bigger, it's only a few pence worth of plastic!!Design fault no 3 - when you have levered the bead off, the angle of the bead hook to the main lever you are holding is too low, and your knuckles are grated by the spokes. Increase the angle so pressure can be applied to the body of the lever while the hook is under the bead without losing your knuckles.But if you can get enough pressure on, with the extra tyre lever in place - bingo, off comes the tyre. The principle of the gizmo is good - the design execution, not so much.Getting the tyre back on - actually really only one design flaw here - it does do a good job of pushing the trye over the edge onto the rim and keeping tension on the tyre bead while you do it, so the edge behind the gizmo is not falling off (which is what tends to happen when doing this manually). However, the same design fault (no 2) as pertains to removing the trye in terms of it being too short and too small to apply enough pressure also holds here - when you get to the last 6-8 inches of tyre bead, tension reaches a maximum and it is nigh on impossible to apply anough pressure with the measly dimsenion of the gizmo to complete the task. But with enough effort, it does pop on. Just make the damn thing bigger!!! You are charging an outrageous £10 for this small piece of palstic - making it 50% bigger (and angling the handle to the bead removal hook) will still leave you with a very reasonable profit margin!

Thought I’d give it a go after seeing it advertised all over. Was rubbish. Worked to take the tyres off but was terrible at putting them on. Had to go to the shop to get a proper lever.

REALLY great tool to remove and reinsert bike tyres!Yes, you don't need a tool to remove bike tyres, but why make it hard if you can spend this cheap item to make it easier for yourself? Yes i agree, it's good to know how to do it without this tool, but i never leave the house without it now.

Arrived very quickly good strong quality and cleverly designed. Bright and compact. Not used yet but the concept is clever.