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Making wheel weights
« on: October 10, 2021, 12:14:03 AM »
Relaxing video of a guy making wheel weights for his motorcycle and philosophically talking about it.
https://youtu.be/VAu0K5uW4GY
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Re: Making wheel weights
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2021, 03:19:10 AM »
Relaxing video of a guy making wheel weights for his motorcycle and philosophically talking about it.
https://youtu.be/VAu0K5uW4GY

With a 1000 containers setting on ships, it going to be make it yourself or go without.. :thumb:  A little history on machining, and what it meant to this country..
https://books.google.com/books?id=PR8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false 

 

It makes machining something on my Cincinnati Milacron even more rewarding.   

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Re: Making wheel weights
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2021, 06:45:20 AM »
Great video, I'm surprised that it wasn't made by someone here! :laugh:

I suppose if I needed spoke wheel weights and had all that equipment I might do the same thing but for now, if I need spoke wheel weights I'll grab my roll of solder and start wrapping spokes until I get the desired balance.

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Re: Making wheel weights
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2021, 11:40:16 AM »
  You've had a lot more good luck than I over the years .  Peter

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Re: Making wheel weights
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2021, 12:00:29 PM »
Or just forget the tire balancing all together. More often than not I've been finding that motorcycle wheels/tars balanced or not act the same.

Generally I’ve found if you static balance the front wheel in any reasonable way, it’s close enough to work fine up to over 100 mph.  The rear wheel balance by comparison is not particularly critical - to the extent that GP racers up until the 80s or so didn’t bother balancing the rear wheel.

Like a lot of things being sold over the last few decades, balancing wheels may be a good thing but the commercial aspect has taken on a life of its own and few know what is actually important, or maybe less so, anymore.
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Re: Making wheel weights
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2021, 01:56:04 PM »
You can buy stick-on wheel weights from most parts stores.
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Re: Making wheel weights
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2021, 05:40:49 PM »
That's where I got mine.   :tongue:
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