DAKOTA DUNES, S.D.—Eagle Equipment L.L.C. has designed a piece of equipment to simplify removing the beads of giant off-the-road tires. The new Eagle OTR Debeader pulls the steel bead bundles cleanly ...

When people talk about tire condition, it feels like most of the focus is on tread patterns and sidewall strength. However, the tire bead is just as critical to your vehicle's tire safety. It's the ...

If you've been driving that good-looking pickup truck and suddenly your steering wheel shimmies like it's trying to escape your hands at 70 mph, then you already know what tire imbalance feels like.

The “Poor Man’s” motorcycle tire bead breaker works like a charm! Here it is: the world’s cheapest (and most effective) motorcycle tire bead breaker! This method has not failed me yet; it works on ...

Many of us here in magazineland don't run bead-lock wheels. The problem with that is that we still air down when we are wheeling, often to 8 psi, which means we tend to blow the tire bead off the rim ...

We've never seen anything not good from EOP, but the new 'pliers are so much gooder they're worth mentioning, even though Tyrepliers aren't new per se (see Four Wheeler, June '99 for details). But ...

Regent Manufacturing has introduced a Universal Bead Breaker designed to meet the needs of all existing narrow- and wide-body commercial aircraft tire beads, for both bias and radial tires, according ...