wheel balancers

[FJRay]

I just installed a set of Centramatic balancers on a customers Wing. They are a circular tube with weights in it attached to a thin stainless plate that mounts behind the rotors on the front and inside the wheel on the rear. I guess they are supposed to work like the dyna beads or other similar devices. I can remember in the sixtys working in tire shops people would buy something like this and it was held in place by the hub caps. I don't remember them working for shit but there are other parts of the sixtys I don't remember either

This guys swears they are the best thing on the planet for balancing and I said if they were that good the builder would use them and charge more money for the bike.

Anybody here use these and care to offer opinions or sarcastic remarks.

 

[Zorlac]

Why is there such an aversion to the way that has worked for decades?

I saw lots of stick on lead weights as a tire Marshall at the super bike races, no mention of the magic beads.

 

[FJRay]

Why is there such an aversion to the way that has worked for decades?I saw lots of stick on lead weights as a tire Marshall at the super bike races, no mention of the magic beads.

I agree. I have never seen a proper balance on anything without adding or removing weight but everybody wants to reinvent the wheel. I must add that the customer just left with the bike and he told me he paid 250.00 for these things. I still charged him the same price for mounting and balancing.

 

[RaYzerman19]

Everybody loves a gadget or snake oil....... been going on for decades. I love my stick-on weights, I know exactly what they're doing!!!!!!!!

 

[lnewlf]

Used to use something like that on my Monster Mudders on my jacked up Suburban-didn't work so great on that either..