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This talk of balancing motorcycle wheels makes me want to go out and check my BMW! I would but it’s 3:30 am! 😟. I can’t recall any balance weights on any of my modern bikes but in the dim distant past I seem to recall being given some weights for an old airhead boxer.
3:30 am? Ah.......man flu and can’t sleep! It has weights. You’re just oblivious. Ask your wife. Now... go to sleep. (My 2014 BMW R9T has weights)
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Hi Ken,
I went to a local Indian Dealer to have new front tires mounted because I thought they would have more experience with wire wheels. No problem mounting the tires. They only use injectable self balancing beads now and convinced me that’s the way to go. I don’t know what happened but my steering wheel shook terribly. Perhaps they didn’t place the correct amount of beads in the inner tubes. You can’t get the beads out so I had to get new tubes, remount the tires, and they took the wheels to a car shop to have the wheels computer balanced using conventional weights. Now it’s perfect. I’m glad others have had better luck with self balancing beads.
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This talk of balancing motorcycle wheels makes me want to go out and check my BMW! I would but it’s 3:30 am! 😟. I can’t recall any balance weights on any of my modern bikes but in the dim distant past I seem to recall being given some weights for an old airhead boxer.
3:30 am? Ah.......man flu and can’t sleep! It has weights. You’re just oblivious. Ask your wife. Now... go to sleep. (My 2014 BMW R9T has weights) Ha ha.....Ken you are so right! If I’d only just checked on a photo I’d taken last week....I’d have seen them! 🙄.
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Do these beads really work ? what about driving at say 5mph do you get a rattle from the wheels any noise?
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Hi Ken,
I went to a local Indian Dealer to have new front tires mounted because I thought they would have more experience with wire wheels. No problem mounting the tires. They only use injectable self balancing beads now and convinced me that’s the way to go. I don’t know what happened but my steering wheel shook terribly. Perhaps they didn’t place the correct amount of beads in the inner tubes. You can’t get the beads out so I had to get new tubes, remount the tires, and they took the wheels to a car shop to have the wheels computer balanced using conventional weights. Now it’s perfect. I’m glad others have had better luck with self balancing beads. I’m going with traditional weights.
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I had my Blockleys fitted at MWS who are the suppliers.
They use conventional balencing but I had to have new tubes as they couldn't get them balanced with the Puncturesafe I'd put in.
If it hadn't been for that the original 4 year and 18,000 mile tubes would have been fine.
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Hi Chris99,
Very interesting regarding the tubes. Thank you for sharing that information. Here’s the rest of my story, it was very expensive.
I originally ordered new Blockleys directly from the Blockley Company in England and they sent new tubes. As I remember the tubes seemed more heavy duty than the stock tubes. The Indian Dealer mounted the Blockleys with the new tubes and injected the self balancing beads. This combination just didn’t work out, terrible shake of my steering wheel, obviously the front wheels were not balanced well. The dealer was very puzzled because they have had good luck balancing motorcycle tires with the beads. I never suspected maybe the heavier tubes with the self balancing beads might be an issue and assumed there was something wrong with the tires. I ordered new Coker Excelsior tires, used my stock tubes, and the dealer had them computer balanced with gloss black stick on weights on the inner rim. Perfect.
I still really don’t know what went wrong. Too many variables. Interesting about Chris99’s experience with his tubes. Perhaps the self balancing beads with the heavier tubes didn’t work. Anyways very costly. I guess live and learn.
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Right now I am running Coker Excelsior tires with the Blockley tubes and black stick on weights. I am on my sixth set of front tires and have never had a balance issue.
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The heavier the wheel/tyre/tube combination the more beads you will need.
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