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Old Mar 5, 2021 | 03:43 AM
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Default wheel spacers...good or bad??

Looking into getting wheel spacers ... 10mm or 12mm (need to measure up still) but I've read a few posts on here about vibration caused by them.
 
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A rather cryptic first post. Congrats
 
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I always use the 11mm spacers, but only for dynamic 4 plane balance issues when there is no cross talk between the planes on the machine.

However, this is only true when using the Hoffman multi pane machine with the compensator engaged, it won`t work with the Schenk balancer.
 

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Originally Posted by Dan89FLSTC
I always use the 11mm spacers, but only for dynamic 4 plane balance issues when there is no cross talk between the planes on the machine.

However, this is only true when using the Hoffman multi pane machine with the compensator engaged, it won`t work with the Schenk balancer.
Kevin Baxter agreed in his video
 
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I don't use any wheel spacers for that very reason.

Come join the vibration free riding club.



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