hey does anybody not balence their tires i know greg from sportbike hype does not but i know a lot of people that tried not too but got bad vibrations i just wanna know so i can save money and prove a friend wrong! lol thanks!

 

Well I can tell you I work for a stunt team and we don't balance **** EVER allthough all the tires a wasted to start and usually don't stay on for more then a few hrs I can't tell! However If you plan on keeping your tires for more than a month usually if they were balanced once and you keep the weight and Mount them with your dots in the right place FORGETABOUTIT you'll be fine! Ohh I can't tell ya much about the dots it's been a long time since I mounted a new tire and when I do I ask one of my AMA buddies THEY know that **** LOL !!! Bunch of pansies

 

I used to balance my wheel myself, I re-use the wheights so I had to duck tape them on the inside of the rim. Once, I lost the wheights and didn't re-balance the wheel, never felt any vibrations. My current tire, I didn't bother to balance it either and no vibrations at 200+ km/h. The only thing I did was to align the dot on the tire with the valve.

 

You can make a home-made balancer.

here's what you need:

2 jackstands, 2 bearings (rollerblade bearings) that fit snugly into the wheel where the axel goes, and a metal rod that fits snugly into the inside of the bearings.

Put the bearings into the wheel, the rod through the bearings, and rest the rod on the jackstands. Spin the wheel by hand. If it shows signs of a heavy spot (i.e. it slows down, then rotates a little so that the heavy part falls to the bottom) that's where you weight it.