come spring i will be replacing my tyres on my speed triple the tyres i am after are metzler roadtec 01 se sport i can buy both tyres online for £254. my local tyre fitter wants £402 for the same tyres fitted to loose wheels thats nearly£75 per wheel fitting charge and he will be getting them cheaper than what I can get them for looked on the pro tyre website their prices are about the same. complete piss take if you ask me. but unless i fit them myself i haven’t got much choice.
From experience, it’s worth the pain to ask your regular dealer. It happens the tires can be cheaper there.
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My experience is that it’s cheaper to buy tyres online. My local mechanic said that my tyres cost him more from his supplier than what I could get them for online, and I would guess he would want to add a little. (?) So I buy tyres myself and take them to him with loose wheels for fitting at a cost of £18.
I buy tyres from TyreTec Trading and would recommend them for both price and service.
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There’s lots of mobile tyre fitters working out of a van these days that will supply and fit or just fit.
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good shout on the mobile fitter might look into that as for buying on line then getting them fitted all the tyre shops local to me won’t fit them unless you buy from them
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Maybe there is a mechanic that also fits tyres? Guy I use does services, repairs, MOTs and fits tyres from a small industrial unit. I do make life easy for him by dropping wheel off for him to fit at a convenient time and he calls back when he’s done. Would be rather a hassle for him to schedule a rigid timeslot into a busy day for such a small value job.
i am half tempted to get some tyre irons and have a go myself surely it can’t be that difficult only thing putting me of is i think you need a compressor to seat the bead after you have fitted them.
A quid at the local garage with a pump 
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I do a lot of tyre changes on the trackday bikes and the three others. I have an olmax manual changer and static balancer. My problem is disposing of the old tyres. No one will take them unless I pay £10.00 per tyre or I travel 30 miles to drop in the only council recycling that will take them. And then it’s a limit of 4 .
If it’s new tyres once a year it’s not worth buying the kit. But the price your being quoted is obscene
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That is just taking the piss. My local MoT man does it for me on loose wheels for a tenner a tyre.
I’ve used TyreTecTrading for tyres in the past and endorse @BrownMouse comments.