i know this messenger, i wont name names but my wife and i strolled up on him and his girl outside a bike shop where he was changing her tube and he was getting so frustrated… kinda made me laugh.
and i didnt want to be ‘that guy’ who shows dude how to fix something in front of his girl so we said hi and strolled along.
depends on the tire/rim. took me an hour once with a matrix rim and a new conti ultrasport. mostly because i got mad and threw my tire tools and had to go look for them, then popped two tubes. that combo sucks.
probably 10 minutes or so. With the vast majority of that time going to getting my bastard tires back on. My roommate can always tell when I’m changing out a tube just by the sheer amount of curse words coming from my room.
something worn in and easy to take off shouldn’t take more than 3 minutes im guessing, but then there’s those bastard tires where you gotta try soap and shit and its a bitch even doing it with 2 people.
I havent ever timed (who has?) but I would guess maybe 5 minutes to change a tube, 7 if I have to patch it, 5 if it’s a new tire. Never had too much trouble with gator skins for mounting either.
I was just coming here to say that I can change most tubes in three or four minutes, sometimes less if it’s a 26" MTB tire. The biggest exception is fucking MATRIX RIMS. Last night we had a long conversation in the shop about how no one, even the guys with 20 years experience, can get a tire onto a Matrix rim in any reasonable amount on time.
Really though, it all depends on the tire/rim combination.
never timed but maybe 5 min for a bolt on front tube change. when customers bring a 26" wheel off the bike into the shop, it takes maybe 2 minutes with the compressor. thats all i do all summer long is sell a bike once in a while and change MTB tubes (literally about 15-25 a day).