Balancing and fitting tyres

beeing a tyre fitter i do all mine at work lol its easy enough to do as long as you get all the arrows in the correct places etc but as to safty as long as you seat the bead and remember to adjust the pressure to the correct psi then ur all sorted check on google should have a fitting guide easy wehn you know how ay??

Gricey

[northwind]

Originally Posted by rictus01

I don't know how good of a job balancing the wheel yourself you could do, and I'm not sure if it would make a great deal of difference on the SV, but why risk it, on the automatic machine you can't get it wrong.

Well this is it, is there any reason to think that we can't do it exactly as well with the home gear if done right? And the automatic machines are only as good as the person working it- we've all got stories of incompetent mechanics I'm sure.

The gear including some weights is cheaper than a pair of wheels would be FWIW, and there's nowhere I'm aware of near here that'll fit tyres for free on loose wheels, though naturally they do it for less as there's less labour. But for the car-less it's kind of hard to get 2 wheels to a dealer as well. I think these parts of the economics will vary depening on location, since there's likely to be more tyre-fitters and much more competition in the bigger cities than there is up here... There's only a handful of bike garages in the area, and I'd write 2 of them off as criminally incompetent/ negligent...

(do wheels need to balanced with their discs on? Just occurred to me I have no idea... Off topic but...)

I completely understand why people are saying about safety issues, which is why I'm not going to do this unless I'm sure it can be done as well at home as it can with a dynamic balancer... But at the same time, I could apply the reasoning about risk to working on your own brakes, or bearings, or engine. The question is just how real the risk is, if any.

[northwind]

Ah ha, you must have posted that while I was typing SV-Sexy-Virgin