Balancing Beads
Ultimate HDF Member
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Palm Harbor fl.
Rounder, there are a couple of options. They sell premeasured packs you just drop in during a tire change, or you get the beads , pull out the valve, the beads go into a little bottle they provide. They also give you a tube to connect bottle to valve. The beads tend to clog though, so you can speed the process up by vibrating the valve stem, say with a dremel tool etc... Big difference for me plus you are getting a newly balanced tire with each ride. I advise you to go to the website All this info is there
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Joined: Sep 2006
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From: Cookson, Ok
Just a little tip: When checking your air pressure, make sure the tire is rolled around to the 6 o'clock position or thereabouts. Drained all the air out of my tire once when I did it with the stem at the top and one of the beads was in the valve core.
Last edited by Lakerat; Jan 26, 2010 at 10:53 AM.
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Rounder, the tube is just a plain old length of poly tubing that fits over threads on valve stem and to bottle. When checking tire pressure with beads installed, keep valve stem at 6 o'clock position and give valve one quick shot of air to clean beads from valve area.
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