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Ride-On is installed. Super easy. According to the table on their website, my front 100/90/19 needs six ounces, and my rear 150/80/16 needs nine ounces. I ordered two eight ounce bottles, giving me an ounce to spare. Unfortunately, I didn't realize until receiving it and reading in more detail that Ride-On recommends up to 25% more for "extreme" or "severe" applications. I would've ordered a third bottle (and may still, but I'll see how it feels first). The bottles came with a valve core remover and a short piece of tubing, which were all the tools needed (other than a compressor). The core remover is robust enough to stay in my toolbox, since I couldn't find the one I used to have. The "Googly Eye" valve caps were already mine!
Originally Posted by Suede Blue Man
It goes in easy the warmer the temp is, like dead of summer is an easier flow than dead of winter.
Originally Posted by cggorman
Maybe soak the bottles in a bath of hot water before injecting?
Originally Posted by multihdrdr
Good Idea. Tarik, you might to want to warm those bottles up to 98.6° ... or maybe someone you know could help
Based on Suede Blue Man's input, heating the bottles first seemed like a good idea (it was barely over 50 when I did this). After some deep thinking, I decided to go with Chris' suggestion of giving the bottles a warm bath, rather than Multi's enema idea. Doing that sort of thing in a cold garage didn't sound appealing.
It was really easy to install the Ride-On. There's a very legible measuring guide on the side, and it flowed easily into each tire.
Rear:
Front:
I suspect my front wheel is out of balance, as I never rebalanced it after swapping out my old 11.5" HD rotors for the 13" BrakeTechs. I also have a much more pronounced "hands off bars wobble" up front than I've ever had. For this reason, I put my extra ounce of Ride-On in the front. I'll probably remove the weights from the front wheel, as they could just as easily be in the wrong place as the right after the rotor swap. I'm not that concerned about the rear weights, as the pulley and rotor are undisturbed since balancing.
Originally Posted by RIPSAW
However, modern cast Harley rims are real close. Quality tires also are close. You just may not need balancing. Ask the spin guy if he can spin just the rim. If it is off, he can mount the tire and if it changes, rotate tire maybe.
Blue Man, you have more weight on your Harley tire than my 4X4. Is that a factory rim? What brand tire? My Michelin and Harley cast rim has two of those weights on back. None on the front.
It sounds like RIPSAW has always lucked out with his wheel/tire combos, but there's a fair amount of weight on both of my wheels.
Front wheel. 35 grams, all on one side.
Rear wheel. 40 grams on pulley side, 25 on brake side. 65 grams total.
It's wet today and I'm still finishing up a front-stabilizer project, but hopefully I can get a ride in tomorrow. If so, I'll check the wobble and report back.
And on a completely unrelated note...
Originally Posted by RIPSAW
(I do understand balancing. Back in the 60s, during my 4-year apprenticeship at NNShipbuilding and Dry Dock as a toolmaker, our department balanced commercial turbines and propellers. My initials are on the propeller off the USS UnitedStates at the Mariners Museum. Like it, I am also a museum, so just my opinion. )
Very cool history, RIPSAW. Are you referring to the SS United States (who would've been the USS United States if called into troop duty, which she was built for. The current "Blue Ribband" holder is currently sitting at a pier 15 miles away from where live), or the USS United States cancelled battlecruiser, or the cancelled cold war-era aircraft carrier, or the later Nimitz carrier who became the USS Harry S. Truman after being christened the United States? I assume you AREN'T talking about the USS Unites States frigate built somewhere around 1800! In any case, that's a very cool bit of history!
+1 for Ride On. Have a plug & Ride On in my rear Avon right now. Holding air just fine. New tires are here waiting, just holding off for the 100° weather to get them installed.
I've been using beads for years. Front and back. No weights whatsoever. Runs smooth as could be. Been using the same beads for about 4 years now. I'll change 'em out the next tire change.
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