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woll
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PostPosted: 15:21 - 12 Jul 2010    Post subject: Wheel balancing Reply with quote
One of the balancing weights has fallen off my front wheel, im hopefully getting it rebalanced on weds. In the meantime i need to do a few journeys, if i take the other balancing weight off will it smoothen out the wobbling or make it worse?
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ms51ves3
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PostPosted: 15:25 - 12 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Make it worse.

I wouldn't worry too much. Some people don't even balance their wheels and have no issues.
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PostPosted: 15:34 - 12 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
+1.

Leave the remaining one on there or you'll make it worse.
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woll
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PostPosted: 15:36 - 12 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
ok then ta lads Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 15:47 - 12 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Do all my own tyre changes and have never balanced a wheel in my puff ... never had a problem Thumbs Up
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DrDonnyBrago
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PostPosted: 11:22 - 13 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Leave it off save a few quid...

Unless you get noticeable shake through the bike as a result then don't worry about it. Loads of people dont balance them Thumbs Up .
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woll
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PostPosted: 17:58 - 13 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
I would leave it donny but it has made it shake quite bad, i thought it was going to be a tankslapper when it first started to shake. Safe to say i shat one.
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DrDonnyBrago
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PostPosted: 13:55 - 14 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
woll wrote:
I would leave it donny but it has made it shake quite bad, i thought it was going to be a tankslapper when it first started to shake. Safe to say i shat one.


Fair enough, get it balanced then matey. If you take the wheel down it should only cost about £5, maybe £5-10 if they need to remove it for you.

I'm tempted by some of these in future:

https://www.dynabeads.co.uk/

They are reusable and go in through the valve, never need to balance a wheel again Thumbs Up .
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woll
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PostPosted: 15:41 - 14 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
hmmm if you try them do a write up to let us know if they work Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 16:45 - 14 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
DonnyBrago wrote:
I'm tempted by some of these in future:

https://www.dynabeads.co.uk/

They are reusable and go in through the valve, never need to balance a wheel again Thumbs Up .


I was thinking about these today. Maybe they 'work' because you don't need to balance a motorcycle wheel so in actual fact, they're just a gimmick.
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PostPosted: 17:23 - 14 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dynabeads seems pretty interesting, i wasn't looking forward to sticking horrible wheel weights onto my shiny new rims!

Dont 100% Understand the installation process though, they go through the air valve...?
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PostPosted: 18:29 - 14 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
Digitalize wrote:
Dynabeads seems pretty interesting, i wasn't looking forward to sticking horrible wheel weights onto my shiny new rims!

Dont 100% Understand the installation process though, they go through the air valve...?


you remove the valve inner from the stem which leaves a tube into which you put the beads then refit the vavle inner and inflate the tyre.
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DrDonnyBrago
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PostPosted: 21:23 - 14 Jul 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote
woll wrote:
hmmm if you try them do a write up to let us know if they work Thumbs Up


Will do - most likely to be if/when I start changing my own tyres. Either that or I'll find a pikey way of balancing them without spending more than £10 Thumbs Up .
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