Wheel balance thing missing

[xwhatsit]

Hello,

Was playing `Somewhere Over the Rainbow' on my front wheel's spokes this evening with some xylophone beaters, when I noticed that there was some sticky black shit on the rim. I then realised a wheel balancing stick-on-thingie used to be there.

I rode home at 110kph tonight and didn't feel a thing.

Am I endangering my life with this missing? Considering there's more or less the same amount of vibes that there were before, is it a worry?

Thanks all, brain-extension-KB.

[Spuds1234]

It never made any problem on my gs250.

I was told it should be right so long as your not doing very excessive speeds. Something about the wheel starting to bounce up and down at high speeds.

[shafty]

I believe they are removed or applied depending on the balance required for each tyre.....

[scumdog]

Never worried about getting wheels balanced -if the tyre-fitter does it? -well and good, if not i don'y worry.

Maybe the sticky spot was an old balance-weight point from another time??

[xwhatsit]

Ah thanks guys. Won't worry about it then.

No, the balance was definitely there before. In fact I went and checked some photos I took of the disassembly when I recently did my fork seals and fitted gaiters; it was there then.

I don't think the 250RS is really capable of high speeds per se :lol: Certainly wasn't any ill behaviour at 110kph, which is about the maximum she ever goes apart from rare middle-of-nowhere-no-people-for-miles sillyness; all I was thinking was `it seems much nicer at speed with the forks lowered a little'.

It needs a front tyre before the year's out, so perhaps the nice tyre man will balance it again then.

[Pancakes]

Never worried about getting wheels balanced -if the tyre-fitter does it? -well and good, if not i don'y worry.

Maybe the sticky spot was an old balance-weight point from another time??

My rim got scratched when I got hit, has been repaired but they didn't balance it (was moving nearly 10mm up and down cruising at 115) so I took it back to the shop who apologised and got it done on the spot. They guy said it was so bad it was like a harley one! Is that the stuff you have to handle SD?

[FROSTY]

dude you dont NEED to dynamic balance a wheel.
Given your desire to learn "things motorcycle why not set yourself up a static balance jig--it really isnt hard -then you can amswer your own question.
a static balance stand is basicly a lenth of rod the same diameter as your front axle.
it sits on two v blocks-kinda line a narrow version of the pit stands I sell -usually made up in one piece with bearings in them- -you fit the rod through the wheel then sit the rod on the v blocks.spin the wheel and see where it stops-mark the bottom and spin it again--pretty quick youll see the heavy spot-using the stick on type weights on the bit of the wheel thats now on top youll eventually have the wheel stopping turning at random -when it does its in balance