| Author | Message | ||
     Humblebueller |
Has anyone tried a self balancing product like this? If so, how well did it work? If it works like they claim, seems like an easy do it yourself alternative to static balancing. http://www.innovativebalancing.com/ | ||
| Hammer71 |
Dont know about beads in my tires but if your looking to balance your own try static balancing. http://www.marcparnes.com/Buyers_Guide.htm Just one of the products out there to do it yourself or just make it yourself. Easy to do and keeps you away from shops ruining your wheels and taking your money. | ||
| Exitlandrew |
Dude, I WOULD NOT recommend using self balancing crap. I have heard from more than a few guys that it does not work, especially in motorcycle tires. Fork up the dough and buy one of those static balancers. Or you can do it the way I do. Level your front or rear axle on jackstands, lightly spin the tire, wherever it stops, the lowest point is the heaviest. Tape weights on the opposite side in small increments until it stops in a bunch of different spots. | ||
| Stevo |
The Marc Parnes balancer is the way to go. Excellent machine work on all parts. Fit and finish is excellent and everything is aluminum. No plastic cones to wear out. It's a little spendy up front, but after a couple of tire changes you make your money back. | ||
| Kurosawa |
Tire balancing liquids are different from each other and some are really bad, but I like Ride-On, http://www.ride-on.com/ I first used this stuff in 1976 in my RD400 at speeds over 100 MPH. I almost didn't put it in the Buell, but went to the site and decided I wanted it in my new tires. I wanted it mostly as a sealant, but it works great as a balancer. It can be used in an unbalanced tire to balance it, and I think it was the now-defunct Cycle mag that tested it this way, in fact the tester I'm thinking of deliberately unbalanced the tire with lots of lead, but most folks prefer to mechanically balance the tire first and let the Ride-On serve only as fine tuning of balance. I like mechanical balancing before installation myself because I believe this will distribute the product more evenly inside the tire to maximize its sealing benefits. Ride-On is inert. It can be washed out of the tire any time you want using plain water. The only chemical I know of that's in it is ethylene glycol, AKA antifreeze, presumably to keep the liquid from freezing in the tire. So far as I know, no car maker's been afraid to run high concentrations of ethylene glycol through pressurized rubber hoses, water pumps, and aluminum blocks at high temps for extended periods, and motorcycle wheels and tires are made of similar materials. Claims include cooler running and longer tire life, both of which make sense to me. But like I say, I'm mostly into it as a sealant. I don't have a friend with a van or trailer I can call when I'm left with a flat at the side of the road. It won't seal all punctures, just ones in the protected area (the meat of the tread, so to speak--see pic on site), but that's where I picked up a nail on my RD, and that's where I figure most nails will end up. If I were to compare the number of miles I spend cranked over with the contact patches out of the protected area to the number of miles I spend straight up or leaned over within the protected area, I figure the odds favor getting a nail in the protected area by a wide margin. (Message edited by kurosawa on May 20, 2006) |
