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I feel your pain! Some tire and rim combos are really, really tough. 

First off, make sure that you're working your way around the tire. Starting at one end of the tire and then trying to pry at another point on the tire will never work. 

You want to get one tire lever under the bead and then insert the other one right next to it, and slide them around the tire til it pops off. A third tire lever may help. 

Make sure that as you work the lever under the bead, you pry it as far over towards the other side of the wheel as you can and for the 2nd/3rd levers, try to slide the lever forward under the bead before hooking it on a spoke (assuming your tire levers have a spoke hook). 

You want the tire lever to start to point through the spokes when you're prying at the bead, if possible, for tough tires. As long as you've got plastic tire levers you can go at this as hard as you cant without any real worry of hurting the rim of the wheel - the lever will break first.

I feel your pain! Some tire and rim combos are really, really tough. First off, make sure that you're working your way around the tire. Starting at one end of the tire and then trying to pry at another point on the tire will never work. You want to get one tire lever under the bead and then insert the other one right next to it, and slide them around the tire til it pops off. A third tire lever may help. Make sure that as you work the lever under the bead, you pry it as far over towards the other side of the wheel as you can and for the 2nd/3rd levers, try to slide the lever forward under the bead before hooking it on a spoke (assuming your tire levers have a spoke hook). You want the tire lever to start to point through the spokes when you're prying at the bead, if possible, for tough tires. As long as you've got plastic tire levers you can go at this as hard as you cant without any real worry of hurting the rim of the wheel - the lever will break first.

I feel your pain! Some tire and rim combos are really, really tough. 

First off, make sure that you're working your way around the tire. Starting at one end of the tire and then trying to pry at another point on the tire will never work. 

You want to get one tire lever under the bead and then insert the other one right next to it, and slide them around the tire til it pops off. A third tire lever may help. 

Make sure that as you work the lever under the bead, you pry it as far over towards the other side of the wheel as you can and for the 2nd/3rd levers, try to slide the lever forward under the bead before hooking it on a spoke (assuming your tire levers have a spoke hook). 

You want the tire lever to start to point through the spokes when you're prying at the bead, if possible, for tough tires. As long as you've got plastic tire levers you can go at this as hard as you cant without any real worry of hurting the rim of the wheel - the lever will break first.

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I feel your pain! Some tire and rim combos are really, really tough. First off, make sure that you're working your way around the tire. Starting at one end of the tire and then trying to pry at another point on the tire will never work. You want to get one tire lever under the bead and then insert the other one right next to it, and slide them around the tire til it pops off. A third tire lever may help. Make sure that as you work the lever under the bead, you pry it as far over towards the other side of the wheel as you can and for the 2nd/3rd levers, try to slide the lever forward under the bead before hooking it on a spoke (assuming your tire levers have a spoke hook). You want the tire lever to start to point through the spokes when you're prying at the bead, if possible, for tough tires. As long as you've got plastic tire levers you can go at this as hard as you cant without any real worry of hurting the rim of the wheel - the lever will break first.