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Originally Posted by Vansaki
What about balancing beads. Does anyone have experience with these?
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They do work, but only really needed on very-out-of-balance wheels. And when you hit bumps, there's fraction of second where they get bumped out of way and have to re-balance themselves. You feel it as slight shudder and makes bump feel worse than it really was.
Trick to getting balance done with minimal weights is to measure wheel and balance it out by itself first. Very rarely is heavy spot actually at valve-stem. Assuming that would cause major imbalance and large amounts of weights used in many cases. At very least, mark actual heavy-spot of wheel 1st.
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