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Post by shalomdawg on Nov 12, 2013 1:16:45 GMT -5
howdy, I had a flat on the 150 14 rear tire. just a screw through the center of the tread with what should be repairable by a glue on patch inside. but no0one will repair them so I had the shop put on a new one and they did not balance it. it vibrated terrible coming home so I removed all the weights the shop had not bothered to remove. that helped so I stuck a couple weights opposite where the old ones came off and that helped but anything over 65 is not smooth. what to do? it would cost nearly a hundred dollars now to have it balanced by removal and such. can I use dyna beads? or other suggestions?
lotsa miles and smiles to ya
ken
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Post by yelloscoot on Nov 12, 2013 1:42:47 GMT -5
I'm using Dyna-Beads. Although, I did put them in with new tires. They "seem" to run smooth,..I have no complaints. It's not as if your riding on fresh asphalt all the time, you can still feel the bumps and all in the road. They don't just disappear by having them in the tire. They are quiet,..no funny rattles or anything. You forget they are there until you wash the wheels while on the center stand or your pushing it. They can only faintly be heard rolling around inside the tire. Again, no complaints for the 3k miles I've been running them.  |
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Post by rockynv on Nov 12, 2013 4:38:09 GMT -5
Bead are a mixed bag depending on your riding. Sometime they go out of balance after hitting a bump in the road and then you have to come to a stop and start over again as they rebalance the tire every time you start off from a stop. When the beads fail you have quite a mess to deal with also (picture a tire filled with glass fibers). The do not correct dynamically out of balance issues either when more weight is required on one side of the tire than the other.
The shop you had them mounted at should only charge you the extra $5/$10 for the balancing if you bring them back. Cycle Gear only charges $25 to mount and balance if you bought the tire there and $35 mounted and balanced if you bought the tire elsewhere.
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Post by JR on Nov 12, 2013 7:25:49 GMT -5
Simple way to do it at home if you have the tools?
JR
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Post by SylvreKat on Nov 12, 2013 7:51:53 GMT -5
I agree that you should return to the shop and have them balance it. Which they should've done as part of putting on a new tire. Can't imagine it not being included in the cost--my car tires have never had extra balancing costs. Although I'm not THAT naive to not figure out it's just included in the cost which is increased by that much.
>'Kat
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Post by pmatulew on Nov 12, 2013 7:55:22 GMT -5
Beads are really the only thing you can do without removing the wheel from the scoot. I've got beads in the big bike and they do work. They're really meant for more of a fine to though. You should pull your wheel and do at least a rough balance before installing them.
Any sort of stick that fits the wheel will do. I found a short straight piece of electrical conduit laying around my garage that fit snugly through the splines in the rear. Then I was able to do like in the video and just roll it between two flat surfaces to find the heavy spot. My wheel was way off and needed many lead weights to bring it back into balance.
Was definitely worth it in the end.
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Post by skuttadawg on Nov 12, 2013 20:12:32 GMT -5
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Post by shalomdawg on Nov 14, 2013 21:34:42 GMT -5
howdy and thanks for the responses. it seems like, as someone said, that the original shop should eat some of the cost for removing the wheel to balance since nothing was mentioned to me about their charge being minus the balancing. but I do not think they will go for that. to those that suggested ways to balance it AFTER being removed that is fine if unlike me you can remove the wheel yourself. I can physically hardly even check the pressure much less remove the wheel. I hope you never get to this condition. I removed the extra weights and added some to the opposite side of the wheel which helped. I put a small weight on one side of the wheel which helped so I put another on the other side which helped so I put another nearby and it became worse so I removed one of those and put another on the other side of the original. now will try it and see whether it is worse or better. maybe I can get lucky and get it close enough for the girls I go with.
again , thanks and
lotsa miles and smiles to ya
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