Question about wheel balancing
Stellar HDF Member
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Michigan
3 oz of weight on any bike seems a little too much, but it happens. My bike brand new had about a 3" long strip of weight stuck on both the front and rear wheels. How much is that? One thing to think about is if you need that much weight you will likely need a rebalance down the road. If you haven't tried dynabeads you should, especially if you have more than an oz of weight on any wheel. Just my opinion. Even with a little cupping on my front tire it's amazing how smooth my bike rides with dynabeads. I was bumping 6000 miles when I got the dynabeads installed front and rear w/new rear tire. I've used the beads on my previous bike and on big trucks. They work!
http://www.innovativebalancing.com/index.html
http://www.innovativebalancing.com/index.html
or less as i didnt measure the length of mine...
Road Captain
Joined: Mar 2009
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I just went through this with a set of Metzler 880's. Had to mount and dismount the tires several times to get 'em under 3 oz. You can't find the true light spot on a tire without mounting it and not all tires are marked with the dots.
When your total wheel is needing over 2 oz of weights, you gotta go back and balance the wheel, disk, sprocket first (and try to get all the light spots aligned so you're using max weights), then go back and add the tire and reposition if needed. Using the standard method of putting the light spot of the wheel 180ş from the light spot of the tire required 3 oz. By aligning all the components (trial and error) I got mine down to 2 oz each, but that's still too heavy in my book.
When your total wheel is needing over 2 oz of weights, you gotta go back and balance the wheel, disk, sprocket first (and try to get all the light spots aligned so you're using max weights), then go back and add the tire and reposition if needed. Using the standard method of putting the light spot of the wheel 180ş from the light spot of the tire required 3 oz. By aligning all the components (trial and error) I got mine down to 2 oz each, but that's still too heavy in my book.
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