It just aint worth the hassel. ATV rims have two retaining ridges to hold the tire on the rim. One on the inside and the lip on the out side. I have seen guys in tire shops fight them with proffesional equipment.

I have to say drop them off , go get a beer then pick then up in a couple hours. Give the guy a tip, he earned it.

 

A guy I know made his own bead braking tool out of a metal piece of pipe that fit just around his rim then welded a couple of cross bars on one opening so he could jump on it and brake the bead. It worked well (when you hold onto something to steady yourself), but I dont know where he got the metal pipe, I think it was from some construction guys.

 

I have changed tires before and i agree with everyone breaking the beads is a pain in the @$$. It is cheaper to do it yourself but i have taken mine to a tire shop every time since. They way we broke them down was took about a 10 foot 4x8. Put then end of it on top of the tire with the tire on the ground making sure the board is right at the rim but not on it. Then we proceeding in driving a full size Bronco up the board all the way to the end. Eventually the tire would come over the bead.

 

Bigred has the best idea on these tires. I personally have a snap-on tire changer,but for the shadetree guys it is almost impossible you have to really careful considering these little wheels bend easily. You really don't want to pry against them. bigreds idea works exactly like my bead breaker does so this is what I would try

 

I bought my tire changer from harbor freight. It was on sale for 35.00. It is NOT the mini tire changer. It comes with the bead breaker and works with little effort.

 

I recently put a new set of 26in Mudlites on my AC 650. It took me about five hours to put the new tires on the rims. I tried to take them to a shop to have them changed but they wouldn't touch them saying that they were afraid that they would rip the sidewall and the stock AC rims don't have a hole in the center so they couldn't hold them on there machine. I got the same story at three shops before I gave up and did them myself. I ended up destroying the still new original tires to get them off the rims. The beads were impossible to break. They wouldn't even budge when I drove my Dodge truck over the sidewall of the tire as close to the rim as possible. I would of spent $100.00 for a bead breaker that day. Next time I'll buy the ITP C5 series rims. I'm kicking myself that I didn't do it this time.

Rich.