1 Balancing wheels using a ball/golfball Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:01 am
Corkboy
Life time member
Guys,
I have been thinking about this and can't see a flaw in my logic. Here goes....
I don't have a balancer for my wheels. I've seen "bubble balancers" which are basically a cone with a spirit level in the centre. You sit the wheel on the cone so it's centered, and add weights to the light side as indicated by the bubble.
So, as a "crude" balancer for the back wheel, what's wrong with resting it on a small ball, like a golfball resting in the centre and eyeing it to level by adding weights on the light side?
I have been thinking about this and can't see a flaw in my logic. Here goes....
I don't have a balancer for my wheels. I've seen "bubble balancers" which are basically a cone with a spirit level in the centre. You sit the wheel on the cone so it's centered, and add weights to the light side as indicated by the bubble.
So, as a "crude" balancer for the back wheel, what's wrong with resting it on a small ball, like a golfball resting in the centre and eyeing it to level by adding weights on the light side?
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Corkboy '87 K100RS SE (The black one - one of the two bikes I'm sorry I sold)
'87 K100RS 0140995 (Gone)
'97 K1100LT 0188024 (Gone)
'08 K1200GT Wedge - but still a K
'08 Transalp 700