Front wheel balancing

[joebloggs]

[quote author=dazza link=topic=18296.msg210848#msg210848 date=1442863969]
Yes, please do, I do like a tall story.
Actually, all jokes aside, I can believe it.
I once knew a bloke who never used to get his tyres balanced and his left boot wore out before his right one.  :rolleyes

Here I am thinking what the FOC is he on about?  :rolleyes until I reread my post, it should have read 1.3mm not 3mm :biker even I would not have believed 3mm  :oops

Saw a fellow one night in the local town riding pillon sitting backwards on an old 175 Honda holding on to the backrest shouting to all of us as he was passing "look reverse on a 175" when the rider stopped after about 100 metres to see what was going on, the whole lot fell over. We went over to help and discovered both were pissed and the pillion thought he was the rider. 

Oh yeah, my left boot always wears before the right :eek and I always balance my tyre, maybe I should put all the weights on my right boot

1.3 mm could easily be caused by the camber on the road surface.
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[unfazed]

Well I got the wheel set up to spin freely, it immediately stopped with the six balance weights at the bottom,,checked tis a few times,rotte one way then another,,so remoed a weight each side ,,the same result,,then another weight each side,=same result so took the last pair of weights off and this seemed good,,,rechecked,again and again,,
So went out for a test ride and smooth ride again,,, up into very high speeds too,, just like it used to be.. and no weights at all,,how odd is that ?

Now where is this Esher place near London ?

Very possible, would be interesting to see what the balance of the wheel is without the tyre, the front wheel of my 600 is out 30gr without the tyre. Yours are probably similar thus accounting for the number of weights which were on and you took off to get it right. Is the red/yellow mark at the valve or opposite it?

[unfazed]

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[quote author=dazza link=topic=18296.msg210848#msg210848 date=1442863969]
Yes, please do, I do like a tall story.
Actually, all jokes aside, I can believe it.
I once knew a bloke who never used to get his tyres balanced and his left boot wore out before his right one.  :rolleyes

Here I am thinking what the FOC is he on about?  :rolleyes until I reread my post, it should have read 1.3mm not 3mm :biker even I would not have believed 3mm  :oops

Saw a fellow one night in the local town riding pillon sitting backwards on an old 175 Honda holding on to the backrest shouting to all of us as he was passing "look reverse on a 175" when the rider stopped after about 100 metres to see what was going on, the whole lot fell over. We went over to help and discovered both were pissed and the pillion thought he was the rider. 

Oh yeah, my left boot always wears before the right :eek and I always balance my tyre, maybe I should put all the weights on my right boot


1.3 mm could easily be caused by the camber on the road surface.
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Camber wear will only effect the sides of the tyre off the centre not the centre line.

[Grahamm]

Now where is this Esher place near London ?

There's a map here

[joebloggs]

[quote author=joebloggs link=topic=18296.msg210856#msg210856 date=1442866147]
[quote author=unfazed link=topic=18296.msg210853#msg210853 date=1442865768]
[quote author=dazza link=topic=18296.msg210848#msg210848 date=1442863969]
Yes, please do, I do like a tall story.
Actually, all jokes aside, I can believe it.
I once knew a bloke who never used to get his tyres balanced and his left boot wore out before his right one.  :rolleyes

Here I am thinking what the FOC is he on about?  :rolleyes until I reread my post, it should have read 1.3mm not 3mm :biker even I would not have believed 3mm  :oops

Saw a fellow one night in the local town riding pillon sitting backwards on an old 175 Honda holding on to the backrest shouting to all of us as he was passing "look reverse on a 175" when the rider stopped after about 100 metres to see what was going on, the whole lot fell over. We went over to help and discovered both were pissed and the pillion thought he was the rider. 

Oh yeah, my left boot always wears before the right :eek and I always balance my tyre, maybe I should put all the weights on my right boot


1.3 mm could easily be caused by the camber on the road surface.
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Camber wear will only effect the sides of the tyre off the centre not the centre line.
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I'm reading posts on my phone so may have missed something but I read there was 1.3 mm difference in wear I didn't see where the wear was.

[griff86]

I work in a Suzuki/Yamaha main dealer and we always remove old weights and rebalance a wheel when changing tyres. We've got an electric balancer which is great. On the odd occasion when fitting a new tyre it hasn't needed any weights adding, the majority need weights though.