Black WidowBW-2065 Motorcycle & Trailer Wheel Bead Breaker

So... the good.The bead breaker wasn't expensive, it does work, and you only have to deal with one stubborn bead to realize using something like this is much better. So it gets 4 stars because despite all of it's quality issues, it does work and after all it is a tool and not a piece of art... but still....The "bad".I am pretty sure a 5 year old with some guidance could have made better welds, better alignments, and painted it better, than whoever in China did this. I am being very serious when I say that not one part of this that was welded, was welded on strait, actually I couldn't find one part that was strait. the metal looked like it came from a scrap yard, or it just wasn't prepped very well, sharp burrs left on drill holes, the only part that had "thick" paint coverage was the welds, and I am pretty sure that was only to help hide the quality of the welds. My two support bars made from "flat metal" were each so bowed that when I put them back to back I could slide a quarter or two between them and they are only around 8" long. Really shoddy job for whoever built this thing, nothing "straight", not a single clean looking weld, in all honesty the paint maybe wasn't that bad, it just didn't cover the crap underneath, so it looked bad, but it also did already have some "bubbling" on one piece. So it is no work of art, But... and this is a big BUT, it wasn't crazy expensive and it does what it is supposed to do, it just looks "ugly" from anybody who has ever built anything with their hands or tools, or just someone who likes quality looking equipment.

I like the bead breaker n I only use for my motorcycle tires. The stance on the legs could be a little longer n firmer. All in all it does the job. Needs to be tweaked or bolted down

Great tool, very easy to use. A must have if your going to change tires. Worked perfectly, easy to assemble, but the instructions were not the greatest.

What took me literally, more than 2 hours and a gallon of sweat to do with just tire spoons, took me 15 minutes, tops, to do with the Black Widow bead breaker and 4 spoons. Also, I cut up an old garden hose to slide on the spoons to protect the rim, which worked really well.What also worked for me was, after removing the valve stem core and spraying a lubricant around the bead, I broke the bead in the first location, inserted a spoon in that spot to the right of the breaker tool, rotated the tire to a spot to the left of the first spoon, broke the bead at that point and inserted another spoon. I did that until all 4 spoons were inserted, which encompassed about a 1/4 of the tire, then I started prying the tire off beginning with the first spoon. How stinking easy that was relative to not using the bead breaker.The bead breaker was only $70 but it's really a solid made tool. Only thing I did to it was glue some rubber feet on it and fill in the gaps in the lever handle with some nylon washers. Total cost extra was less than $5.

I like the quality of materials and the design of the device which allows for sufficient leverage when breaking the bead.

A must have for tire changing. Yes, it's just a simple lever but it's well worth the 100 bucks to make the bead breaking part of the tire change easy and quick. Buy it!

It got the job done, but it’s not very stable or sturdy. I used it to replace the tires on my Super Tenere, it broke the bead, but it moves around a lot when you put pressure on the handle. It does work, but my tire was pretty fat, so maybe that was it.It will pay for itself on the first or second use. Maybe I will bolt it down to something the next time.

I've had other bench top bead breakers in the past, and they let me down. Not this one. You should keep a couple of 2x4 sections around to support the other side of the wheel, but this thing does a great job, and keeps me from using the floor-level bead breaker that's part of my tire machine. Hurts my back to keep using that one. This is perfect.

Changed my 27 inch UTV tires no problem, great piece of equipment