tyre lever snapped any substitute I can use?
I rarely need tyre levers
There's always one.
Hold the wheel firmly in front of you. Bite down hard on the tyre, and prise it off - works every time.
There's always someone harder.
My mum's teaspoons always worked for me.
Until she got tired of that and bought you your own set of teaspoons.
I used forks as the tines can be hooked round the spokes to hold them in tension so you can get the second one in.
Salad, fish, dinner, dessert, or oyster?
For once in contemporary cycling there is a simple cheap answer - Park Tools blue tyre levers.
Park no,
blue yes.
MR FIXIT