Wheel balancing

[RaYzerman19]

These YAmmy wheels are the first ones I've ever seen with the light spot at the valve stem (20-30 grams). So, I prebalance the wheel and leave that permanently. Tires are pretty good these days, so doesn't matter much where the 'light spot dot' goes, but check balance anyway. It should only take one or two weights and you're done.

You will find you can be out of balance a tad on the front and never know. There isn't a lot of rubber in a front tire, and we're used to thinking about car tires where it was important to split the weight, etc. Don't worry about that on a front tire. Rear may be a little different story, but, if it's only 3 or 4 7 gram weights, just stick them on as close to the middle of the wheel as you can.

I just changed my front tire a couple of days ago, and have too many weights on it because I forgot to remove before I put the tire on last time AND this time.... sheesh, oldtimers disease... I was doing this at my buddy's place two hours away, but since I have another balancer at home, I just brought it home to balance it. Oh yes, while mounting it, didn't get the red dots lined up, tried to spin it while it was on the changer, but couldn't get there, screw it. Got home..... put it on the bike, buttoned it all up, proud of myself. No noticeable vibrations at speed... Remembered today I forgot to balance it.. CRAP! Took the wheel off, removed a small amount of weight, spent all that time checking, rechecking.... ended up putting the exact same weight back on. CRAP AGAIN!! Oh well.... And they ain't flyin' off 'cuz they're on there with 3M automotive molding tape.

 

[Old Michael]

...Will it cause you to crash and result in a horrible flaming death? Probably not....

So, it's not as if i were to put a car tire on my bike?

...Or try to go really fast on a Gen 1?

Thanks for the 'knowledge' and reasoning, Fredman. Should I ever father another child, he (or she) will be called Fred.

(And yes, Skooter, I did go back and read the whole friggin' thread. Painful, but necessary, I reckon.)

 

[SkooterG]

Tires are pretty good these days, so doesn't matter much where the 'light spot dot' goes, but check balance anyway. It should only take one or two weights and you're done.

I wholeheartedly disgree. It's a crapshoot. Did you read my previous post about the PR2s needing a bunch of weight?

 

[RaYzerman19]

Tires are pretty good these days, so doesn't matter much where the 'light spot dot' goes, but check balance anyway. It should only take one or two weights and you're done.

I wholeheartedly disgree. It's a crapshoot. Did you read my previous post about the PR2s needing a bunch of weight?

I used to have that problem until I prebalanced my wheels. But, you're right, there are going to be exceptions.

 

[SkooterG]

Tires are pretty good these days, so doesn't matter much where the 'light spot dot' goes, but check balance anyway. It should only take one or two weights and you're done.

I wholeheartedly disgree. It's a crapshoot. Did you read my previous post about the PR2s needing a bunch of weight?

I used to have that problem until I prebalanced my wheels. But, you're right, there are going to be exceptions.

I always pre-balance my wheels. This was not a case of the heavy part of the wheel matching to the heavy part of the tire.

Why the hell doesn't Michelin mark their tires anyways? French bastards.

 

[mattster31]

Then your wheel is permanently balanced...then you'd never have to worry/stress about the "heavy" side ever again.....until you clobber a 4x4 left in the road.

Ouch.....rub it in why don't ya

I will say I gave up trying to balance that one......so I found another on eBay. Besides.......no matter how much air pressure I used I just couldn't get the dang tire bead to "seat"......and the dynabeads would just fall out.

I thought about filling in the gap with goop.....but it probably would have taken too much weight....