Originally Posted by
PMK
Jake, very odd you are not finding enough drop center with your rims. A couple years ago, on my friends Spyder, and his too is a 2021 RT Limited in Chalk color, I changed his tires.
Similar to what you are doing, manually broke the beads on both rim flanges of each wheel assembly. Used a 5 gallon bucket and rested the wheel assembly on the bucket. Quick squirt of WD around the old tires bead. Push the tire down to the drop center, and my short moto tire irons easily lifted the tires beads over the rim flanges.
Then installed his new Federal Formoza front tires, Dynamically balanced both and installed back on the Spyder.
Very odd you may need to resort to cutting off a Kenda tire. Every one I have replaced, by manually changing, has been a soft, low strength tire casing that easily removed from the rim.
All the best with it, and be careful as you cut the tire off.