hi folks,
As you can see from my previous post in this section (
here), I seem to have plenty of time before I need another set of rubber. However, I have been thinking about mail order from overseas in order to keep the costs down for the next set. First, a cupla questions...
a) has anyone actually bought PR3s from overseas? If so, where from and how much did you pay? I looked at Revzilla and at their check-out they say that can't send them to Australia due to restrictions from Michelin.
b) have you managed to fit them (easy or not) without the machines - ie. just the tyre irons/kits as shown
here?
c) is it worth it? If I could buy them from Revzilla I'd only be paying $165 US + shipping for the rear. I recall it was $320-ish fitted here in Perth.
I'm comfortable with balancing (either with beads or a free-wheeling rig).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Rob.
PS. given these tyres last well, I will of course consider just paying the top-$ for someone else to do it, but I'm a tight-fisted w***er son of a bank manager.