bike life · electric bike tips · electric fat tire bike · fat tire · mountain ebike tire ·Jul 30, 2024

How to Remove a Fat Tire Electric Bicycle Fat Tire？

A fat bike is a type of mountain bike that has wider tires designed to grip soft, unstable terrain, such as snow and sand. Just like regular mountain bikes, fat bikes can get flats, in which case you'll have to remove the tire and replace the tube. You may also want to replace tires when the tread wears out or change the tread pattern you ride with. For example, you can buy fat bike tires with studs for riding in the snow. Whatever your reason for wanting to remove a fat bike tire, the process is relatively simple, and you won't need any special tools to get the job done.

Step 1: Taking a Tire Off

Squeeze the brake arms together by hand. Lift up the cable housing, called the “noodle,” to disconnect the cable from the brake arms.

This is not necessary if you have disc brakes.
Put your bike up on a bike stand, if you have one, to make the task of removing the wheel much easier.

Use your shifters to move the chain down to the smallest gear sprocket. This will loosen the chain so you can take the wheel off.

You don’t have to do this if you’re removing the front wheel.

Remove the wheel

Flip down the quick release lever if your bike has one or use a crescent wrench to remove the nuts if your wheel is attached with nuts. Unhook the chain from the gear sprocket and carefully pull the wheel out of the fork.

If you’re removing the back wheel, press or pull down the derailleur, which is the mechanism that attaches the shifter cables to the gears, as you pull the wheel off.
If you have your bike up on a bike stand, make sure to hold the wheel while you loosen the quick release or the nuts, so it doesn’t fall out and potentially get damaged.

Step 2: Replacing an Inner Tube

ebike tire unscrew

Turn the cap counterclockwise until you loosen it all the way, then pull it off and set it aside where you won’t lose it. Do the same for the valve nut, which is the small ring at the base of the air valve where it meets the inside of the wheel’s rim.

The air valve is attached to the inner tube, so you won’t be able to pull the tire off if you don’t remove the cap and the valve nut first.

Pry ebike tire off the rim

Stick your fingertips underneath the tire and start pulling it off the rim. Slide your fingers around the wheel, keeping them between the tire and the rim, until the tire comes all the way off the rim.

Fat bike tires are looser than regular mountain bike tires, so you don’t usually need a tire lever to pry them off the rims.
If your fat bike tire is too tight to take off the rim with just your fingertips, insert a tire lever in between the rim and the tire, then use it like a lever to pry the tire off.

Pull ebike inner tube

The inner tube is the inflatable tube inside the hollow tread of the tire. Reach inside your fat bike’s tire and grab this tube, then pull it out and set it aside.

This is the part that actually goes flat when you get a flat tire. When something long enough pierces the tread of your tire, it can puncture this inner tube. If this happens, replace the inner tube.

Inspect ebike tire

Examine the entire inside of the tire’s tread for anything stuck in it that could cause a flat, such as glass, nails, or other sharp debris. Check along the entire rim where the tire sits for anything sharp that is stuck to it as well. Remove any debris you find to avoid future flats.

If you don’t see anything with a visual inspection, put on a thick work glove to protect your hand and feel along the inside of the tire for anything sharp. Sometimes debris can be too small to notice with the naked eye.

Inflate ebike inner tube

Take the cap off the new inner tube’s air valve and use a bike pump to inflate it about halfway or until it starts to hold it’s round shape. This will make it easier to put it inside the tire’s tread.

If you inflate the tube all the way, you won’t be able to get it back in the tire and onto the wheel easily. Inflating it only partially makes it more flexible and easier to work with.

Push ebike inner tube back

Stick the tube into any part of the inside of the tire’s tread to get started. Rotate the tread and keep pressing the inner tube inside of it as you turn the tire until it’s inserted all the way.

It doesn’t matter what part of the tire you start putting the inner tube inside of. You basically just have to shove it all in. There’s no special technique.
If you want to swap your fat bike’s tread out, put the new tube inside a new tire at this point instead of back into the old one.

Reinstall tire valve nut

Line up the tire with the rim so the tread is going forward. Find the air valve hole on the rim and line it up with the tire’s air valve, stick the air valve through the hole, then screw the valve nut back on to hold the tire in place on the rim. Work your way around the tire and press the rubber inside the edges of the rim.

Most fat bike tires are marked with arrows that show you which way the tread is supposed to go.

Inflate the tire

Use your bike pump to finish inflating the tire. Put the air valve cap back on and tighten it all the way when you’re finished filling the tire with air.

Keep an eye on the tire as you inflate it to make sure the rubber stays inside the rim. This is why it’s best to fill the tire slowly.

Step 3: Putting a Tire On

Position the wheel with the tread going forward and set it in the fork. Reattach the nuts using a crescent wrench, if the wheel has nuts, or flip the quick release lever back into place to secure the wheel.

If you’re attaching the rear wheel, remember to push down the derailleur mech in order to get the wheel back on the fork.

Use your fingers to loop the chain back over the smallest gear sprocket. Try shifting the gears using your bike’s shifters to make sure the chain is attached properly and works correctly.

You might have to jiggle the derailleur mechanism around a bit to get the chain over the sprocket.

Squeeze the brake arms together to spread them apart at the top. Push the brake cable housing back in between the arms and release them. Test out your brakes to make sure they are working before you ride.

You don’t have to do anything to the brakes if you have disc brakes.

Recommend the best fat tire electric bicycle for you

RANDRIDE Explorer Pro - A great 1000W Fat Tire Electric Bike

Explorer Pro uses the high-quality 26"X4.0" CST All-Terrain Fat Tire. The unique puncture-proof design means that the ebike does not need to worry about being punctured during driving.

The fat tires enable this Electric Bicycle to pass through different terrains well. Although equipped with fat tires, coupled with a powerful 1000W motor, the Ebike can easily cross obstacles while driving without any effort.