Tear off those ancient weights on your wheels and use zinc coated bbs!

[Gitchemo]

Throw those old balancing weights away! Use zinc coated bbs instead!

Twin1300 wanted to know what I did to achieve such a superior ride! I am sharing my response to his questions with the rest of you guys.

Get those zinc coated ones came from walmart. I simply followed the directions that Dynabeads used with tires. I tore off the one ounce weight on the front, broke the tire bead, weighed up one ounce of zinc bbs to match that old weight and poured them in the tire! I put two ounces in the rear tire and the ride is absolutely incomparable! I am religious, but OH DAMN, THE RIDE IS ABSOLUTELY SMOOTH! I CAN SEE THE REAR VIEW MIRROR IMAGES ALMOST PERFECTLY. I bought a floating compass and put it on my windshield. Before I put the ZINC COATED BBS in It spun like a top in its little container full of liquid. It now actually works with the counterweights that I poured into the tires! THE COMPASS WORKS WITH THE ZINC COATED BBS!

Any of you fellas who were willing to put car tires on your bikes can certainly pull those darned old weights off. Throw them away; they are old technology! Just make sure you match the weights that you are getting rid of with the ZINC COATED BBS.

I was worried that rust could be a factor and clump up the bbs, so I took the zinc coated bbs and poured them into a glass of water for a couple of days to see if they would rust. They do not, so I used them instead of Dynabeads.

If you don't have a machine that weighs ounces and fractions of ounces, go and find one to measure those zinc coated bbs.

I am on my way to Acapulco Mexico and it is going to be a better ride because of the zinc bbs.

Rich

[smokey2255]

I am trying to figure out if Gitchemo has stock in zinc or Daisy bbs

Great tip Rich

Thanks for sharing

See you out there
Smokey

[Gitchemo]

Funny, the only reason I colored Zinc bbs was to get people to use the zinc ones instead of the normal bbs. Those other ones rust and clump up inside the tire.

Where are you from?
Rich

[smokey2255]

Where are you from?
Rich

Central Illinois, I am about 30 miles west of Terre Haute Indiana and 70 miles south of Champaign Illinois.

See you out there
Smokey

[grizak]

I would be afraid the zinc coating would wear off. then you would have a bad rust problem and would not know it until next tire change.
I have heard of people using Air Soft BB's with good results.

[Doc]

I bought Dynabeads for my VTX, Applicator and 3oz of beads for about $11. No worries about rust or clumping, Anyway the idea of beads or BB's works very well. Smoothed out a bad vibration I had from 40mph on up. Now it is as smooth as glass all the way to as fast as I want to go.

[DrAlloway]

I have a vs1400 Intruder with wire/spoked wheels.

So before I went DS I ordered Dynabeads.
Then I decided to do the Silicone tubeless conversion.

So I now have a Radial rear DS tire without a tube on my spoke wheels.

Then it dawned on this slow old brain, that the Silicone remains sticky forever (or at least we hope it remains flexible forever). Therefore, I think, the Dynabeads will stick to the Silicone and not be properly distrubuted around the wheel. So I did not install the Dynabeads.

1. Am I right that Dynabeads will not work in this case ??
2. Will Air-Soft bbs work ?? or also stick ??
3. I think the zinc or stainless bbs would work, right ??

I guess I have 8 oz of Dynabeads I will sell cheap (I bought extra for 2 bikes, 4 wheels).

[Mac_Muz]

Well the zinc will for sure wear off, but there will be no rust, since the action will tumble the bb 's . I am running Dyna beads, so I see the point, but Dyna Beads can be installed thru the valve stem, and for 2 bucks per ounce I can't beat it except with BB's. I am not about to drop a wheel to break the bead for this..

[Mac_Muz]

DrAlloway , I read your post... You can't use beads at all. No kind... They will just embbed in the coating... Sorry but it is wheel weights for you... mac

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