What do you lube your rim with?

What I really mean in what do you lube your tire bead with when spooning on new shoes? I have always used dawn liquid but someone just mentioned silicone spray so it stays put to make it easy to get them off again if I need to do it in a field. (FWIW, I have never, in 20 years, had to change a tire in a field - who brings a spare on a motorcycle!?).

Makes sense... even if I just sweat less in my garage... except I don't have any handy. Do I care? Do you have any magic elixirs you use to do this? I've used ATF in the past... saddle soap, basically whatever slippery goo was handy that I was pretty sure didn't eat rubber.

I avoid soaps as they can due to the PH rot the rims, use "tire glide" or hair spray (the big cheap can of AquaNet) hair spray lubes and seals the bead. When I raced cars often I'd have to explode new tires on to the rim to inflate hair spray kept the bead on the rim where dry the tire often fell back down.

http://www.blackjacktirerepair.com/lb-800 $12 for a gallon cheaper then silicon and not slipper when dry you don't want to pop a bead or slip on the rim.

After you spin a tire on the rim because you used silicone, you won't go back.

Ky is probably very good as well.

I use windex. Generic window cleaner isn't the same. It has to be windex.

What are you, Greek?

I've done plenty of dirt bike/dualsport tube changes in the field, and I've used whatever goo was handy at the time. ArmorAll is my new go to if I don't have anything specifically designed for the task. I use the No-Mar brand tire paste at my buddy's shop, it's good stuff. I like it better than a spray on anything actually, with the paste you can put it where it needs to be by hand, and not spray it all over the place.

A mixture of Windex and a TINY bit of Dawn. Works awesome.

Windex is all I've ever used too.

Appleseed wrote: What are you, Greek?

MBFGW reference! Love it.