I have found this problem too, most bike dealers don't have the equipment to do single siders. I had to bring my wheel to a 'bike friendly' car tyre fitter to get it balanced.
I personally wouldn't run it without getting it balancing first.

 

You need to get it balanced even if you can't feel it when you ride it.

It will eventually knacker your wheel bearings if you don't.................

 

mine when i had the weells painted they ballaced the rear weell and puted sticker weights in the sides.not in the midle like the original. :thumbup here you are...

 

Cheers guys

Think i might tell the tyre place watlings to maybe purchase the abba cone kit, so that they can balance our rears

Now to tell hubby to remove my wheel again so that i can take it somewhere for a balance :8 :laugh

I know when the front tyre lost a weight on the hornet it felt horrible. Head shake.
I would hate to get a rear shake :lol

 

Cheers guys

Think i might tell the tyre place watlings to maybe purchase the abba cone kit, so that they can balance our rears

Now to tell hubby to remove my wheel again so that i can take it somewhere for a balance :8 :laugh

I know when the front tyre lost a weight on the hornet it felt horrible. Head shake.
I would hate to get a rear shake :lol

I have used Watling Tyres in Redhill for the last 14 years and would never go anywhere else.

They fitted a rear tyre to my CB1000R last year and balanced it as far as I'm aware and I've had no problems.

Not being able balancing wheels because they are single sided is a load of rubbish :bad . With the exception of the chain driven BMW's all BMW's have single sided rear wheels. HOWEVER, some wheel balancing machines may need a special adapter - a tyre firm I used to use had to get one made up specially so they could balance my single sided BMW wheels. Maybe the guy at Watlings couldn't find the adapter? I was at Watlings in Redhill Saturday having a new tyre fitted on my XJR - the usual motorcycle tyre fitter was there.

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Julian shame i missed ya coz i was in there on saturday 2.... :rolleyes1

Have used watlings loads. Great lads.
Loose wheels with ya own tyres £15 balanced.
I got charged £10 this time as they couldn't balance it. :notme

I spoke with Lee the one who seems to be in charge and he said fins might be able to balance them???
So i dunno...

Our little bikes never get balanced and as far as i am aware the smaller wheels never do???

Me and him watched wsb last night and wondered if they have time to balance their wheels when doing quick swapsies?

Mmmmm as i scratch my head :help :laugh :rolleyes1

 

Yup they'll get balanced, go visit the tyre truck and watch the fitters at it - it's incredible how fast they can fit & balance a tyre.

Even at club racing the guy fitting tyres goes at a fair rate. And he'll get upset if you turn up with valve caps, cush drives, sprockets, spacers or old weights still attached to the rim...

 

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Julian shame i missed ya coz i was in there on saturday 2.... :rolleyes1

Have used watlings loads. Great lads.
Loose wheels with ya own tyres £15 balanced.
I got charged £10 this time as they couldn't balance it. :notme

I spoke with Lee the one who seems to be in charge and he said fins might be able to balance them???
So i dunno...

Our little bikes never get balanced and as far as i am aware the smaller wheels never do???

Me and him watched wsb last night and wondered if they have time to balance their wheels when doing quick swapsies?

Mmmmm as i scratch my head :help :laugh :rolleyes1

Lee's the man and he's been there years.

I'll have to check if I have a weight on my back wheel.

Can't say I've noticed any problems.

The stick on weights sometimes fly off!

I think I was at Watlings between 10am -11am

 

I think all the tyre companies in Aberdeen-shire can balance a single sided wheel.
I know the tyre company we use has to turn the wheel as to have the front nearest the machine to be able to balance the wheel.

 

I was in about 1130 so only just missed ya.

 

Watlings balanced my rear a couple of weeks ago no problems. I cant see the difference with it being single sided or not. The centre blank pulls out and you balance it exactly like the front or am I missing something. I did question it as the original weight was still fitted and was told that it was in balance when they tested it. Have been out on it twice since.(both times it rained) but I still got her up to 3 figures on private ground :rolleyes and had no vibs.

 

I cant see the difference with it being single sided or not. The centre blank pulls out and you balance it exactly like the front or am I missing something.

You're missing something! The front wheel, and a standard rear wheel, has a pair of bearings for the balancer spindle to pass through. A single sided wheel doesn't have any bearings in it, just a hole through the middle so you can't use a motorcycle tyre balancer on it. Both bikes that I've has with SSSA's have had the rear wheels balanced on a car balancer.

 

Check this out Dyna Beads for Motorcycle Riders and Dealers I used them on other bikes and 100% happy. But never on a single swingarm

 

Well i thought i would send a ickle message to the boyz at superbike mag and i got an answer today....

I thought i would share their opinion

Hi Tracey,

If you're lucky, you do sometimes get a tyre that is perfectly balanced and
would require no weights to balance it when fitted. OF course, you have to
stick it on a balancer to find this out, so the tyre place can't have known
whether it was in balance or not. You would notice the front tyre being out
of balance more than the rear, but you would still be able to notice a rear
tyre that was out of balance.

Arguably, an out of balance rear tyre could wear out bearings faster, but it
would have to be significantly out of balance for the effect to be
pronounced.

In short, we'd recommend getting to a tyre place that can balance your
wheel, and making sure you weren't charged for balancing at the first place.

Hope this helps

Chris


Chris Northover

Road Test Editor

SuperBike magazine

 

Well i thought i would send a ickle message to the boyz at superbike mag and i got an answer today....

I thought i would share their opinion

Hi Tracey,

If you're lucky, you do sometimes get a tyre that is perfectly balanced and
would require no weights to balance it when fitted. OF course, you have to
stick it on a balancer to find this out, so the tyre place can't have known
whether it was in balance or not.

Road Test Editor

SuperBike magazine

This is correct. In all the tyres that I have bought, this may have happened to me once, certainly no more than twice, but I can't remember what tyre / bike this was for.

 

This is the adaptor that my tyre dealer uses on his motorcycle balancer; Workshop equipment/Wheel balancers, centering adapters, wheel washers/Wheel balancers car, light truck, motorcycle/Wheel balancer MOTO

 

But is this for the CB1000R also? It is described for the VFR.