Tyron Bands

[celticbiker]

It's quite scary the stuff "professionals" come up with. When I had my bike tyres balanced the week before last, they gave me the front with 3 lots of weights on the rim.Thirty grams by the valve with 30 grams directly opposite(thereby cancelling each other out) and a further 15 grams placed elsewhere. I noticed that the marker dots on the tyre hadn't been lined up by the valve. I said I wanted the tyre refitted with the dots on the valve and the wheel rebalanced. They reckoned the dots made no difference and I'd have to pay again for a rebalance if the same amount of weight was needed. They refitted the tyre and then discovered their dynamic wheel balancer was faulty and refunded the original balancing fee. That caused another problem as the alternative tyre fitters in my area then charged top dollar for balancing as I haven't bought the tyres from them. How long the first companys balancer had been faulty was anyone's guess. God knows how many cars and bikes had left that tyre depot with ridiculous amounts of wheel weights. Virtually everything I've had done professionally recently has had some sort of a problem. Just makes you wish you could do everything yourself.

I got fed up with paying to have tyres fitted and balanced so I bought a manual tyre fitting machine and balances for bike and car tyres. Saved a fortune by buying good tyres cheap via tinternet and fitting them myself.
Here's the video of it in use

https://youtu.be/hun05YrvKmY