tips and/or tricks for stubborn tires???

[IvonaDestroi]

That tool is good mainly for narrow road tires. If you're dealing with heavy 700x35 tires or MTB tires, that tool may not be large enough. The Koolstop tool is big enough for those larger tires.

well 700 x 25, 100 psi, but I do see that thing breaking pretty easily with these particular ones, seeing as how they were so super tight in the first place. I think a total of 5 tire levers (the kind with steel reinforced insides) got broken on these tires between me and the shop guys. The bead is just way off for some reason. I really don't know how any of us managed to pull it off.

Luckily the tires are super tough. I've landed off of two curbs at a wierd angle already and where my old tires surely would have been tested, these have withstood the pressure quite well. And that yellow sidewall is absolutely gorgeous. But I'm not looking forward to that day...

For those who have tried the VAR levers, are they super solid?