The tire bead is an essential component of any tire, and any damage to it could be a one-way ticket to needing new tires. Here's how to keep it safe.

Pick your wheel and tire combinations with care! It could mean busting a bead. Details inside Four Wheeler Magazine.

You should be mounting tires with the Bead Bazooka just because you can.

Tyrepliers are the fastest and easiest tool for breaking tire beads that we know of with notable improvements! Check them out inside Four Wheeler Magazine.

The tires of the truck on the left were filled with Equal Flexx balancing beads, while the tires on the tractor to the right were left untouched as part of IMI's demonstration. (Photo by Sean ...

Unfortunately for the owner, the beads only made the situation worse, and made the car drive “like crap.” Should you use balancing beads on your tires? And, uh, what are they?